From 5c676f789d9e896f4b8d88a977d4e0fcae3a9fc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 19:11:51 -0700
Subject: configure: detect endianness.

* configure: New test for endianness of the compile
target. Produces HAVE_LITTLE_ENDIAN in config.h with
a value of either 1 or 0.
---
 configure | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)

(limited to 'configure')

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index c80c8820..a441a7c4 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1245,6 +1245,43 @@ fi
 printf "%d\n" "$lit_align"
 printf "#define LIT_ALIGN %d\n" "$lit_align" >> config.h
 
+#
+# Endianness.
+#
+
+printf "Checking target machine endianness ... "
+cat > conftest.c <<!
+#define USPELL(C0, C1, C2, C3) \
+  ((unsigned) C0 << 24 | \
+   (unsigned) C1 << 16 | \
+   (unsigned) C2 << 8 | (unsigned) C3)
+
+unsigned x[6] = {
+  0,
+  USPELL('L', 'I', 'S', 'P'),
+  USPELL('U', 'N', 'I', 'X'),
+  USPELL('C', 'O', 'R', 'E'),
+  USPELL('D', 'W', 'I', 'M'),
+  0
+};
+!
+
+if ! conftest_o ; then
+  printf "failed\n";
+  exit 1;
+else
+  if grep -q 'PSILXINUEROCMIWD' conftest.o ; then
+    printf "little\n";
+    printf "#define HAVE_LITTLE_ENDIAN 1\n" >> config.h
+  elif grep -q 'LISPUNIXCOREDWIM' conftest.o ; then
+    printf "big\n";
+    printf "#define HAVE_LITTLE_ENDIAN 0\n" >> config.h
+  else
+    printf "failed\n"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+fi
+
 #
 # Inline functions
 # 
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