From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 14:54:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Is detecting endianness at compile-time unworkable?
Message-ID: <xmqq600wkc4i.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87wotdt649.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> And, as an aside, the reason we can't easily make it better ourselves is
> because the build process for git.git doesn't have a facility to run
> code to detect this type of stuff (the configure script is always
> optional). So we can't just run this test ourselves.

It won't help those who cross-compile anyway.  I thought we declared
"we make a reasonable effort to guess the target endianness from the
system header by inspecting usual macros, but will not aim to cover
every system on the planet---instead there is a knob to tweak it for
those on exotic platforms" last time we discussed this?