Re: Question about big endian

2011-02-09 Thread Ira Rosen
On 8 February 2011 17:34, Julian Brown wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:22:32 + > Julian Brown wrote: > >> IIRC I couldn't figure out the magic incantation needed to do it last >> time I tried. I don't think the "--with-endian=xxx" option is >> supported for ARM. Possibly the way to do it is to

Re: Question about big endian

2011-02-08 Thread Julian Brown
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 11:22:32 + Julian Brown wrote: > IIRC I couldn't figure out the magic incantation needed to do it last > time I tried. I don't think the "--with-endian=xxx" option is > supported for ARM. Possibly the way to do it is to configure for > the "armeb-foo-eabi-bar" rather than "

Re: Question about big endian

2011-02-08 Thread Julian Brown
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:33:21 +0200 Ira Rosen wrote: > On 7 February 2011 18:24, Julian Brown > wrote: > > Building for big-endian ARM is Really Hard (IMO) :-). You can't > > intermix little-endian and big-endian objects at all, so you either > > need an entirely-big-endian compiler, or to build o

Re: Question about big endian

2011-02-08 Thread Andrew Stubbs
On 08/02/11 07:33, Ira Rosen wrote: It certainly helps to understand that I don't want to try that fancy both-endians build ;) Is separate big-endian build Really Hard as well? Yes and no. It's easy to configure for big endian: /configure --target=armbe-linux-gnueabi" . The hard par

Re: Question about big endian

2011-02-07 Thread Ira Rosen
On 7 February 2011 18:24, Julian Brown wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:18:40 +0200 > Ira Rosen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to check vzip/vuzp patch in big endian mode. But when I try >> to compile with -mbig-endian flag, I get >> >> > ~/mainline/bin/bin/gcc -O3 -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon >>

Re: Question about big endian

2011-02-07 Thread Julian Brown
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:18:40 +0200 Ira Rosen wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to check vzip/vuzp patch in big endian mode. But when I try > to compile with -mbig-endian flag, I get > > > ~/mainline/bin/bin/gcc -O3 -mfloat-abi=softfp -mfpu=neon > > neon-vtrnu8.c -mbig-endian > /home/irar/mainline/bin/li