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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:31:43 +0200 (WET)
From:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DJGPP 2.02 fails immediately on FPU-less machine !
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Message-ID:	<Pine.A41.4.05.9812101127140.41782-100000@ieva01.lanet.lv>
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Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> > Tried to build djlsr202 with egcs-1.1.1 cross-compiler under
> > Linux (I only had to patch coff.h to workaround well known Linux problem
> > with _POSIX_SOURCE). I got right signature of emu387.dxe (DXE1) not
> > reversed as in distributed binary archive. 
> 
> That was Linux on an Intel machine, right?

Pentium 200MMX

> 
> If so, then the byte-reversing function is a no-op, like in DOS/Windows.
> 
> DJ's machine is big-endian (I think), and the function should actually do 
> some work there.
> 

Maybe it is worth building archives for distribution on i[3456]86.
We could avoid similar problems in that way. Of course cross-building
on big-endian systems should also be fixed.  

Andris

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