Is it possible to build a cross compiler supporting both big & little endian?

[Yann E. MORIN]

Joachim,
All,

On Sunday 06 September 2009 17:59:38 Joachim Nilsson wrote:
> We run both little and big endian Arm targets at work. Currently both 
> are Arm9 so naturally I started thinking about creating one single 
> toolchain to bind them all...

Hehe! :-)

> So I wonder, is it even possible to maintain one toolchain supporting 
> different endians?

It is theoretically possible. That's called "multilib".
But crosstool-NG does not support that.

There has been some discussions about the issue; search the archives.
The latest was in last July, IIRC.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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