------- Comment #1 from tom at giftssoft dot com 2009-11-20 17:26 -------
It looks like this bug is related to bug 16350, which was created on 2004-07-03
and resulted in patch 800-arm-bigendian.patch being applied on 2007-11-07 to
gcc 4.3.0. Prior to this patch, gcc defaulted to little-endian mode on both
big-endian and little-endian arm targets, and had to be explicitly told to
compile in big-endian mode. This patch modified gcc to detault to big-endian
mode on big-endian arm targets and little-endian mode on littlr-endian arm
targets. However, the hunk of the patch that replaced:
{ "marm", "mlittle-endian", "mhard-float", "mno-thumb-interwork" }
with:
{ "marm", TARGET_ENDIAN_OPTION, "mhard-float", "mno-thumb-interwork" }
was somehow not applied. Therefore, this bug can be restated as follows:
The patch to resolve bug 16350 was only partially applied and resulted in an
inconsistent linux-elf.h file in which part of it still assumes little-endian
on all arm targets (the old behavor) and part of it assumes big-endian on
big-endian arm targets (the new behavior).
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42081
