[fpc-devel] Arm Big Endian

[Peter Vreman]

At 09:31 23-8-2005, you wrote:
> > >and then:
> > >make crossall CPU_TARGET=arm OS_TARGET=linux
> > >
> > >And it is busy compiling and assembling. However, I noticed the
> > >commands:
> > >/bin/mkdir -p /pp/rtl/units/arm-linux
> > >arm-linux-as  -o /pp/rtl/units/arm-linux/prt0.o arm/prt0.as
> > >arm-linux-as  -o /pp/rtl/units/arm-linux/dllprt0.o arm/dllprt0.as
> > >arm-linux-as  -o /pp/rtl/units/arm-linux/cprt0.o arm/cprt0.as
> > >arm-linux-as  -o /pp/rtl/units/arm-linux/gprt0.o arm/gprt0.as
> > >
> > >The command line options for arm-linux-as include:
> > >-mbig-endian and -mlittle-endian
> > >Shouldn't one of those be included, or does arm-linux-as also pick
> > >up endian information from some environment variable?
> >
> > Those arm-linux-as lines are in the Makefile and not in the compiler.
>
>Note that the easiest way to deal with such issues is to simply make
>arm-linux-as and -ld a script that adds a parameter, so
>
>arm-linux-as is renamed to true-arm-linux-as and arm-linux-as is e.g.
>(untested):
>
>#!/bin/sh
>/path/to/true-arm-linux-as -mbig-endian $@

Using armbe-linux- as prefix for the script looks much better. And then 
supply BINUTILSPREFIX=armbe-linux- for the make command or -XParmbe-linux- 
for the compiler commandline.


Peter