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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 05:01:21 JST 翠星石

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   • Ludovic Courtès
   @civodul >using the clang compiler instead of gcc
   Big yikes.
   
   What needs to be changed in gcc to make it generate such binaries, as after all it does support both big-endian and little-endian?
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     Ludovic Courtès (civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 05:01:23 JST Ludovic Courtès

     • Efraim Flashner

     “64-bit PowerPC hardware boots in big-endian mode and then for powerpc64le it switches to little-endian mode. Therefore we need a compiler which can generate both big-endian and little-endian binaries for the bootloader […]” 😯
     https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=4ee2a660e5f1362d3a72dcdc62ba8ff5612949da

     @efraim knows the nitty-gritty details of alternative architectures.