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| author | Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com> | 2018-10-02 10:14:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2018-10-02 21:08:24 +0300 |
| commit | 829d7bf6f9c696b526c9c0f99635634389dd1b5d (patch) | |
| tree | baeb435750aca9842e091914bbdebc0f4256d7a1 /docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md | |
| parent | 07800e29c975148c0381593202bf8498e3ad6e20 (diff) | |
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docs: Add note to cpu_family table about endianess [skip ci]
Autotools will add endianess to the name of the architecture in some
cases (such as ppc64le vs ppc64) meson doesn't do this. It's worth
noting this in the documentation.
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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md index ccdcb34..39ec1cd 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md @@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ set in the cross file. Any cpu family not listed in the above list is not guaranteed to remain stable in future releases. +Those porting from autotools should note that meson does not add +endianness to the name of the cpu_family. For example, autotools +will call little endian PPC64 "ppc64le", meson will not, you must +also check the `.endian()` value of the machine for this information. + ## Operating system names These are provided by the `.system()` method call. |