[patch] armbe-linux target defaults to big-endian

[David Vrabel]

>>The attached patches (for binutils 2.14 and GCC 3.3.1) add/fix the 
>>armbe-linux target so that big-endian code is generated by default.
>>
>>It works for what I want but I suspect it's not done properly.
> 
> :(
> 
> Nope, there's some cleaning up required.

To be honest I don't really have the time at the moment to produce a 
nice patch.  Just thought it might save someone else some time if I 
posted what I had.

> Do you have a copyright assignment on file?

Nope.  Didn't realize one was needed for such small changes.

>>     case ${cpu} in
>>       alpha*)		cpu_type=alpha ;;
>>+      arm*be|xscale*be|strongarm*be) cpu_type=arm endian=big ;;
>>       arm*b|xscale*b|strongarm*b) cpu_type=arm endian=big ;;
> 
> 
> You should clearly be using a configuration of armb-<xxx>, then the code 
> is substantially there (see the line after your patch).

Whilst binutils recognized armb-linux. GCC didn't.  I had to pick one... 
  (plus some of the other archs have *be and *le and it seemed consistent).

David Vrabel
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