Commit a6765b81 by Joern Rennecke

Added some words on FLOAT_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN.

From-SVN: r16932
parent 53d4d75f
......@@ -1096,6 +1096,15 @@ The compilation parameter @code{WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN}, if set to 1, says
that word number zero is the most significant part; otherwise, it is
the least significant part.
@cindex @code{FLOAT_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN}, (lack of) effect on @code{subreg}
On a few targets, @code{FLOAT_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN} disagrees with
@code{WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN}.
However, most parts of the compiler treat floating point values as if
they had the same endianness as integer values. This works because
they handle them solely as a collection of integer values, with no
particular numerical value. Only real.c and the runtime libraries
care about @code{FLOAT_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN}.
@cindex combiner pass
@cindex reload pass
@cindex @code{subreg}, special reload handling
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