Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:01:34 -0700 (PDT) From: mdh <mdh_lists@yahoo.com> To: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com>, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An endian error Message-ID: <709604.78360.qm@web56805.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20081014125042.GA50163@icarus.home.lan>
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--- On Tue, 10/14/08, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: An endian error
> To: "Unga" <unga888@yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 8:50 AM
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:00:26AM -0700, Unga wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'm trying to compile RELENG_7 kernel on i386.
> >
> > The "make buildkernel" develops an endian
> related error:
>
> I cannot reproduce this error on any of our i386 boxes or
> our amd64
> boxes.
>
> Is this kernel being built with the new gcc you've been
> messing around
> with in other threads? I have to ask that question, for
> obvious
> reasons.
I wonder if that code is right - normally an endian check on FreeBSD entails comparing BYTE_ORDER with _BIG_ENDIAN and/or _LITTLE_ENDIAN to determine which is the case, which would seemingly imply that it is OK to have both of those defined.
- mdh
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