[U-Boot-Users] Re: MIPS LE build problems

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <4304D3FD.7080107@smiths-aerospace.com> you wrote:
>
> As noted in other email in this thread, executing the above code won't 
> work.  What about simply compiling a file containing:
> 
> constant int data = 0x01234567;
> 
> objdumping the data section, and looking (grepping) to see if the data 
> section has 0x12345678 or 0x78563412?

Doesn't work as objdump will be user friendly and  always  print  the
"correct" value, i. e. 0x01234567.

But the idea is good.

The attached test script works with the tool chains available to  me.
Can others please test this, too?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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#!/bin/sh

set -e
# make sure CROSS_COMPILE is defined
[ "${CROSS_COMPILE}" ]

# create temp directory
TMPDIR=`mktemp -d`

# and make sure it gets removed automagically
trap 'rm -fr ${TMPDIR}' 0 1 2 3 15

>${TMPDIR}/foo.c
${CROSS_COMPILE}gcc -c ${TMPDIR}/foo.c -o ${TMPDIR}/foo.o
readelf -h ${TMPDIR}/foo.o | \
sed -n 's/.*Data:.* \([^ ][^ ]*\) endian/\1/p'

exit 0