Andrew Pinski wrote: > The point is mips*-*-* is big endian and mipsel*-*-* is little endian. > And doing adding a target which says mips-linux-android which is > little-endian is just backwards. Is there anyway to fix the target > triplet to be mipsel-linux-android including inside the official NDK? > If not then we have a broken triplet for android.
I agree with what you said. The simplest fix is that mips-linux-android still generates big-endian code as the MIPS target triplet design. Don't ever set it to generate little-endian code automatically. For MIPS GCC Android patches to merge to FSF GCC trunk, we will never change endiannes. Note that we did use a regular mips-linux-gnu GCC to compile Android systems by using -EL. The target of "mips-linux-android" is just invented to work with NDK scripts. And people can freely create "mipsel-linux-*" toolchains to compile Android systems directly, or create "mips-linux-*" toolchains to compile Android systems with -EL. The MIPS NDK script patch was just merged to googlesource last night. I can work on another patch to use -EL options, but to let "mips-linux-andoird" generate big-endian code. Is this solution ok for you? Thanks! Regards, Chao-ying
