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Re: glibc-2.3.1 defines BIG_ENDIAN: naming conflict
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: glibc-2.3.1 defines BIG_ENDIAN: naming conflict |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:17:07 +0200 |
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:
|> Niels Ferguson, a friend of mine, received bug reports from GNU/Linux
|> users for his portable twofish library
|> (http://niels.ferguson.net/code/TwofishClib.html) and asked me to look
|> into it.
|>
|> It turned out that glibc (2.3.1) defines the macro BIG_ENDIAN when
|> string.h or memory.h is included, and gcc optimization is switched on.
|>
|> The C99 draft standards do not seem to allow this.
Yes, but you didn't request full C99 compliance. Use --std=c99 to enable
that.
Andreas.
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