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Re: RDI target broken in 000215 snapshot


Grant Edwards wrote:
> 
> I had assumed that gdb was detecting the endianness of the
> target already (before today, I didn't know it was user
> selectable).  I'll take a look at make the "auto" mode pay
> attention to the target hardware indication.  One could then
> generate a warning if the endiannes of the target and the
> endianness of a file being loaded disagree.
> 
Good idea.  If the endianess is set to auto, then you set it appropriately.
If not, and it differs from the target, a warning is in order.
You got no indication at all that something was wrong.

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