Re: [PATCH 10/27] Replace config-time define HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN

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On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:53:07 +0400
marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Replace a config-time define with a compile time condition
> define (compatible with clang and gcc) that must be declared prior to
> its usage. This avoids having a global configure time define, but also
> prevents from bad usage, if the config header wasn't included before.
> 
> This can help to make some code independent from qemu too.
> 
> gcc supports __BYTE_ORDER__ from about 4.6 and clang from 3.2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx>

LGTM

For the s390x parts I'm involved in:
Acked-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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> --- a/include/exec/cpu-all.h
> +++ b/include/exec/cpu-all.h
> @@ -34,13 +34,13 @@
>  
>  /* some important defines:
>   *
> - * HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN : if defined, the host cpu is big endian and
> + * HOST_BIG_ENDIAN : whether the host cpu is big endian and
>   * otherwise little endian.
>   *
>   * TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN : same for target cpu
>   */

This comment does not seem spot on any more. BTW would it make sense
to replace TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN with TARGET_BIG_ENDIAN as well. I
believe the bad usage argument applies equally to both, and IMHO we
should keep the both consistent naming and usage wise.

>  
> -#if defined(HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN) != defined(TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN)
> +#if HOST_BIG_ENDIAN != defined(TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN)
>  #define BSWAP_NEEDED
>  #endif
>  

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