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Subject: Re: Is detecting endianness at compile-time unworkable?
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Well, having said all that, I do not think I personally mind if
> ./configure learned to include a "compile small program and run it
> to determine byte order on the build machine" as part of "we make a
> reasonable effort" as long as it cleanly excludes cross building
> case (and the result is made overridable just in case we misdetect
> the "cross-ness" of the build).

No need to run the program for cross-compiles, grepping a object
file seems to work for autoconf:

	git clone https://git.sv.gnu.org/git/autoconf.git
	$PAGER autoconf/lib/autoconf/c.m4
	# look for "BIGenDianSyS"