[LLVMdev] RFC: Are we ready to completely move away from the optionality of a DataLayout? (original) (raw)

Chandler Carruth chandlerc at gmail.com
Sun Oct 19 15:11:58 PDT 2014


On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Sanjoy Das <sanjoy at 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20141019/4d0eadf1/attachment.html>



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