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(Fwd) Re: mixing big-endian and little-endian: gas/as can do?

Seems that I had the right answers, but for wrong guestions.
Must check my brains... A new try, sigh...

> Does gas/as have any capability for specifying the endian-ness of generated
> code from within a single source file?

 The mips target uses a '.option .pic2' or something to switch to PIC-code,
perhaps there is a '.option' for this too... Just 'grep' the gas sources for
'.option'...

The 'gas' docs seem to have nothing for PPC:

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AMD29K-Dependent	AMD 29K Dependent Features 
ARC-Dependent	ARC Dependent Features 
ARM-Dependent	ARM Dependent Features 
D10V-Dependent	D10V Dependent Features 
H8/300-Dependent	Hitachi H8/300 Dependent Features 
H8/500-Dependent	Hitachi H8/500 Dependent Features 
HPPA-Dependent	HPPA Dependent Features 
i386-Dependent	Intel 80386 Dependent Features 
i960-Dependent	Intel 80960 Dependent Features 
M68K-Dependent	M680x0 Dependent Features 
MIPS-Dependent	MIPS Dependent Features 
SH-Dependent	Hitachi SH Dependent Features 
Sparc-Dependent	SPARC Dependent Features 
V850-Dependent	V850 Dependent Features 
Z8000-Dependent	Z8000 Dependent Features 
Vax-Dependent	VAX Dependent Features 
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> These are pertinant questions for generating code for PPC processors.  To run
> in LE mode there must be BE startup code that actual makes the switch, then
> the rest of the code is LE.

 You mean that the processor starts in big-endian? Ok, the 'crt0.S' source file
in 'libgloss/rs6000' probably could have the switch instructions... But I saw
nothing... I attach the 'crt0.S' here...

 Cheers, Kai
 

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     File:  crt0.S
     Date:  30 May 1998, 1:09
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