Re: A question about architecture and byte order with RPMs

[alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)]

> be added to type declarations.  The modifier would indicate whether the
> data object is stored in big-endian or little-endian format.
> The compiler would generate byte swizzles or not, depending on whether
> the native execution mode agrees with the indicated storage class.
> 
> Perhaps the GCC world, being somewhat more enlightened, could do something
> in this area (or perhaps already is thinking about it?).

Yeuch ;). Can't you get your guys to put that in the MMU so you can have
a little endian or big endian page ? I can see how you'd make lcc generate
such output but not offhand gcc