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title="NEW - Broken AX_C_FLOAT_WORDS_BIGENDIAN with BSD ELF tool chain"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88639">88639</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Broken AX_C_FLOAT_WORDS_BIGENDIAN with BSD ELF tool chain
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<th>Product</th>
<td>cairo
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
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<th>OS</th>
<td>FreeBSD
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>general
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>jkim@FreeBSD.org
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>cairo-bugs@cairographics.org
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<pre>Recently, FreeBSD dropped GNU strings(1) in favor of BSD ELF Tool Chain.
<a href="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/276796">https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/276796</a>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/elftoolchain/wiki">http://sourceforge.net/p/elftoolchain/wiki</a>
Unfortunately, the new strings broke AX_C_FLOAT_WORDS_BIGENDIAN detection
because option '-' is not supported. In fact, POSIX specifically says its
behavior is undefined:
<a href="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/strings.html">http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/strings.html</a>
I believe 'strings -a' should be used in place of 'strings -' for
build/aclocal.float.m4 to be more portable.</pre>
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