On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 06/09/2015 10:20 AM, Eric Botcazou wrote: >>> >>> Because some folks don't want to audit their code to where to add >>> byteswaps. >>> I am serious people have legacy big-endian code they want to run little >>> endian. There is a reason this is around in the first place. Developers >>> are >>> lazy. >> >> >> That's a little rough, but essentially correct in our experience. > > Agreed on both points. These legacy codebases can be large and full > auditing may not really be that feasible.
Well - they need a full audit anyway to slap those endian attributes on the appropriate structures. We are not, after all, introducing a -fbig-endian switch. "Legacy code base" and "new compiler feature" don't mix in my mind. Richard. > jeff >
