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

[Renato Golin]

On 26 January 2015 at 15:49, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anything can be justified on those grounds (and sometimes is, not just
> by NetBSD), but using it to *add* legacy is extremely sketchy.

I agree we should not bend to all legacy arguments, you know I had my
share of rants against that, but there are some cases that are harder
to change, especially around how distros are organised.

I'm not an expert on BSD, so I don't have a strong opinion either way.


> In particular I think some change *should* be in the generic
> toolchain. My tests indicate that GCC's behaviour is to pass --be8 by
> default for v7 (& v6m), not for v5, and to require -Wl,--be in the
> middle.

This is confusing... Are you proposing we do the same?

cheers,
--renato