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[Bug tdep/7627] Is gdbarch_bits_big_endian needed?
- From: "tromey at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 3 Jun 2010 16:03:00 -0000
- Subject: [Bug tdep/7627] Is gdbarch_bits_big_endian needed?
- References: <20020503093800.7627.ac131313@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
------- Additional Comments From tromey at redhat dot com 2010-06-03 16:03 -------
I should have linked to the discussion:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-05/msg00445.html
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-05/msg00503.html
Apparently there do exist some machines which are byte-little-endian
but bit-big-endian; see the first link. GDB doesn't support any such
arch at present, but it seems to me that the distinction
is worth having as long as such machines exist.
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