[llvm] r247920 - Temporarily fix gcov failures in big-endian hosts.

[Diego Novillo via llvm-commits]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:02 PM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Diego Novillo via llvm-commits <
> llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>> I've applied a temporary fix by xfailing the test for big endian hosts.
>> I'll look at making the gcov reader endian-agnostic (though I'm not sure
>> how useful this is).
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> Why would it not be useful? (not that I know much about this stuff - but I
> assume the reader is used for processing the profiling information &
> feeding it into the compiler - no reason the host of the compiler would
> have the same endianness as the target of the build)
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Sure, that's the scenario I'm thinking of.  In practice, a little->big
endian cross is not something we commonly find, but in other environments
it may happen, so I'll poke at it next.
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