* Ulf Hermann: >>> Some systems don't provide endian.h and byteswap.h. The required >>> functions are trivial to define using sys/param.h and gcc builtins, >>> though. >>> >>> Also, include endian.h in dwelf_scn_gnu_compressed_size.c as that uses >>> be64toh(). >> >> This is still an issue with non-glibc, non-BSD compilation. The patch >> is not ideal, as it depends on a GCC extension, but it's an >> improvement for those who use GCC on a platform which does not provide >> these functions as part of the C library. > > Well, there are a lot of other issues to be fixed if you want to build > elfutils on anything non-gcc. We could add a further check for those > builtins and sys/param.h and then add a somewhat less trivial version > of endian.h and byteswap.h if they are missing. But that would likely > involve other compiler extensions or OS-specific headers.
Ah, fair enough. I mainly wanted to increase awareness of the patch because it has not been merged yet.
