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On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Sanjoy Das <sanjoy@playingwithpointers.com> wrote:
I have a question:

\> 1) Synthesizing a "default" boring DataLayout for all modules that don't
\> specify one.

What is a default boring value for endianness?

Little. Sorry, but LE won here.

I mean, we could make the default big-endian just to test the less common scenario, but I think it would just result in bugs in people's test cases rather than teasing out actual bugs in their code.