r227088 - For NetBSD/ARM-EB, link with --be8. Support for the older BE32 is

Tim Northover t.p.northover at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 09:26:59 PST 2015


>> I maintain this patch should not have been committed, at least without
>> more thought and discussion.
>
> A ARM-EB binary without --be8 is rejected by a NetBSD kernel running on
> ARMv7. While there are some older Big Endian ARM systems around, there
> are very hard to find, so motivation for supporting them is quite small.

What about behaviour on other systems. I think myopic commits fixing
just NetBSD are unacceptable.

Tim.



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