Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][v2] configure: change endianness test

[Stefan Weil]

Am 14.03.2012 22:37, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 14 March 2012 21:24, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Contrary to Paul's argument QEMU does not only support a fixed
> > set of known host architectures, but also unknown hosts (via TCI).
> > For those, there remains a small chance that they are big endian
> > and that they get the wrong endianness now. TCI is still experimental,
> > so I don't care too much about this small deficit.
>
> (speaking with absolutely no idea of the innards of TCI :-))
> I think the correct fix for this is that TCI should be portable
> code which doesn't care about the host endianness.
>
> -- PMM

TCI does not care, but the rest of QEMU cares.
That's why configure determines the endianness.

Stefan