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Bug 9296 – LITTLE_ENDIAN and BIG_ENDIAN are always defined on Linux

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: dmd
Product: D
Version: D2
Platform: All
OS: All
Creation time: 2013-01-11T12:49:00Z
Last change time: 2015-06-09T05:11:46Z
Assigned to: nobody
Creator: kai

Comments

Comment #0 by kai — 2013-01-11T12:49:09Z

On a Linux system with a recent glibc both LITTLE_ENDIAN and BIG_ENDIAN are always(!) defined. The definition is in include file <endian.h> which is included by many other, including <stdlib.h>. Therefore use of #if LITTLE_ENDIAN in dmd source works only by coincidence.

Comment #1 by yebblies — 2013-11-23T05:36:44Z

There now appear to be no actual uses of LITTLE_ENDIAN or BIG_ENDIAN left in the source.