Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 08:25:13 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl> Cc: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r303033 - head/share/man/man7 Message-ID: <CANCZdfp%2B0hdoO53qOBiRjTYOoAmC1gVLPbY%2BLOa9K=u6w7em9w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CABh_MKnXt7X1L36wB0jrth-7zCvdyOKjPiiXvyYyfP7V9hqQbQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201607191746.u6JHk9ov092270@repo.freebsd.org> <CABh_MKnXt7X1L36wB0jrth-7zCvdyOKjPiiXvyYyfP7V9hqQbQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Ed Schouten <ed@nuxi.nl> wrote: > Hi Ed, > > 2016-07-19 19:46 GMT+02:00 Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>: >> +.It arm Ta soft Ta soft, double precision > ... >> +.It mips Ta soft Ta identical to double > > I was wondering, what's the difference between two ways of phrasing > it? If long double is double precision, it's identical to double, > right? > >> +.It Dv BYTE_ORDER Ta Either Dv BIG_ENDIAN or Dv LITTLE_ENDIAN . >> +.Dv PDP11_ENDIAN is not used on FreeBSD. > > Would it make more sense to describe GCC/Clang's officially documented > endianness macros here? > > __BYTE_ORDER__ > __ORDER_LITTLE_ENDIAN__ > __ORDER_BIG_ENDIAN__ > __ORDER_PDP_ENDIAN__ I don't think so. We don't use them in the source tree (except to implement these macros). These are not standardized, so we use our macros as a standard. We want everybody to use them always, except in code we get from upstream. Warner
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