> Contrary to Paul's argument QEMU does not only support a fixed > set of known host architectures, but also unknown hosts (via TCI). > For those, there remains a small chance that they are big endian > and that they get the wrong endianness now. TCI is still experimental, > so I don't care too much about this small deficit.
If you're compiling for a host that obscure, then there's a good chance you'll be cross-compiling anyway. I'd be amazed if there aren't other bits of qemu that require host-specific code. Paul