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Re: [PATCH] Add replacement endian.h and byteswap.h to libgnu
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: Ulf Hermann <ulf dot hermann at qt dot io>
- Cc: <elfutils-devel at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 09:24:00 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add replacement endian.h and byteswap.h to libgnu
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* Ulf Hermann:
> Some systems don't provide endian.h and byteswap.h. The required
> functions are trivial to define using sys/param.h and gcc builtins,
> though.
>
> Also, include endian.h in dwelf_scn_gnu_compressed_size.c as that uses
> be64toh().
This is still an issue with non-glibc, non-BSD compilation. The patch
is not ideal, as it depends on a GCC extension, but it's an
improvement for those who use GCC on a platform which does not provide
these functions as part of the C library.