From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:01:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Comment changes.
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=92b170eee9289a0f3267900096a003656eebe623;p=gcc.git

Comment changes.

From-SVN: r2102
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diff --git a/gcc/config/i860/i860.h b/gcc/config/i860/i860.h
index 847fc085895..ee80e24b344 100644
--- a/gcc/config/i860/i860.h
+++ b/gcc/config/i860/i860.h
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ extern int target_flags;
 /* Define this if most significant word of a multiword number is the lowest
    numbered.  */
 /* For the i860 this goes with BYTES_BIG_ENDIAN.  */
+/* NOTE: GCC probably cannot support a big-endian i860
+   because GCC fundamentally assumes that the order of words
+   in memory as the same as the order in registers.
+   That's not true for the big-endian i860.
+   The big-endian i860 isn't important enough to
+   justify the trouble of changing this assumption.  */
 #define WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN 0
 
 /* number of bits in an addressable storage unit */