https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79216
Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW
Last reconfirmed| |2017-01-25
Ever confirmed|0 |1
--- Comment #6 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
> It does indeed, I don't know why I missed it. The only thing that I really
> see as a problem with it is that it doesn't allow the assignment of
> endianness to scalar pointers, e.g.:
>
> uint32_t __attribute__((scalar_storage_order("big-endian"))) *blah;
>
> blah = &foo.bar; /* bigendian field in a structure */
Yes, you cannot specify the endianness of scalars on an individual basis,
that's what makes the feature realistically implementable in a production
compiler.
