Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/12/10/04:36:04
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:
>
> > Tried to build djlsr202 with egcs-1.1.1 cross-compiler under
> > Linux (I only had to patch coff.h to workaround well known Linux problem
> > with _POSIX_SOURCE). I got right signature of emu387.dxe (DXE1) not
> > reversed as in distributed binary archive.
>
> That was Linux on an Intel machine, right?
Pentium 200MMX
>
> If so, then the byte-reversing function is a no-op, like in DOS/Windows.
>
> DJ's machine is big-endian (I think), and the function should actually do
> some work there.
>
Maybe it is worth building archives for distribution on i[3456]86.
We could avoid similar problems in that way. Of course cross-building
on big-endian systems should also be fixed.
Andris
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