On 14/09/17 08:22, Eric Botcazou wrote: >> And there are lots of other problems, I don't have time to document them >> all, or even remember them all. Personally, I think you are better off >> trying to fix the application to make it more portable. Fixing the >> compiler is not a magic solution to the problem that is any easier than >> fixing the application. > > Note that WRS' Diab compiler has got something equivalent to what GCC has got > now, i.e. a way to tag a particular component in a structure as BE or LE. >
It is over 20 years ago since I played with a Diab Data compiler, for the m68k. I seem to remember it being able to attach a big-endian or little-endian label to any individual variable (rather than a type), which could be a scaler rather than a struct. So it was a bit more flexible than gcc. It also had a more flexible inline assembly system than gcc. And it had a /massive/ price tag, way beyond our reach at the time - so I only had a demo version :-( David
