> My main question about this series is - how generally useful do you > expect it to be? I know of some different projects that would like > bi-endian capability, but it looks like this series implements something > that is a little too limited to be of use in these cases.
AdaCore has customers who have been using it for a few years. With the inline pragma and either the configuration pragma (Ada) or the switch (C/C++), you can use it without much code rewriting. > It looks like it comes with a nontrivial maintenance cost. Nontrivial but manageable IMO and the heavily modified parts (mostly the RTL expander) are "cold" these days. I suspect that less "limited" versions would be far more intrusive and less manageable. Of course I would do the maintenance (I have been doing it for a few years at AdaCore), except for the C++ front-end that I don't know at all; that's why I'm OK to drop the C++ support for now. -- Eric Botcazou
