Re: glibc-2.3.1 defines BIG_ENDIAN: naming conflict

[Andreas Jaeger]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:

> Niels Ferguson, a friend of mine, received bug reports from GNU/Linux
> users for his portable twofish library
> (http://niels.ferguson.net/code/TwofishClib.html) and asked me to look
> into it.
>
> It turned out that glibc (2.3.1) defines the macro BIG_ENDIAN when
> string.h or memory.h is included, and gcc optimization is switched on.
>
> The C99 draft standards do not seem to allow this.

If you want to conform to C99, specify gcc -std=c99 and in this case
the variable is not defined.

Andreas
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