[patch] Find if we are big endian at compile time

[Chandler Carruth]

I wonder if the MIPS folks would prefer to use their predefined
architecture macros. I wonder the same about the ARM folks.

Either way, I would make the behavior that we test for evidence of a big
endian system, and unless we find it, default to little endian. I think
this will neatly avoid the need to special case MSVC. It also seems prudent
given the last decade or so of hardware development. ;]


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Rafael Espíndola <
rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Err, on essentially any modern system, I think you can use <endian.h>
> (see
> > the endian(3) man page) to get BYTE_ORDER to be defined.
> >
> > I would suggest using the preprocessor pattern outlined at the bottom of
> > this page: http://sourceforge.net/p/predef/wiki/Endianness/
>
> Thanks for the tip. New versions of the patches are attached.
>
> Thanks,
> Rafael
>
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