[Bug gas/18198] On ARM, instruction and data endianness cannot differ

[solrabizna at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18198

--- Comment #2 from Solra Bizna <solrabizna at gmail dot com> ---
I can confirm that this works. (Yay!) Compiling with -EB and passing --be8 to
ld results in little-endian instructions and big-endian data. I specifically
tested that it correctly handles literal pools, and unadorned .word directives
(correctly) come out little-endian in .text sections and big-endian in .data
sections.

The only remaining bug IMO is in the documentation for the -EB option. It ought
to mention --be8, perhaps something like: "In order to run on recent ARM
processors, code assembled with -EB generally needs to be linked specially.
With the GNU linker, this entails passing --be8 to ld."

Do I close this bug and file a new one? Are documentation bugs a thing in this
ecosystem?

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