Trenton Schulz wrote:
> It's only a problem if you have something like this.
>
> #define BIG_ENDIAN // I am building on PowerPC.
>
> // ...
>
> #ifdef BIG_ENDIAN
> // some endian specific stuff
> // ...
> #endif
We have something like this: The WORDS_BIGENDIAN define. This is used e.g.
in src/support/unicode.C to get the right byte order for iconv:
#ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
char const * ucs4_codeset = "UCS-4BE";
#else
char const * ucs4_codeset = "UCS-4LE";
#endif
In theory we could get rid of that, but that would mean that we would need
to byteswap ucs4 strings when passing them from/to iconv either on big or
little endian machines, and I don't think that we want to do that.
Georg
