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AFACT, this was never accurate. When there was support (such as it was)
for PDP endian it seems to have been spelled PDP_ENDIAN.

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brooks requested review of this revision.Wed, Oct 1, 9:26 AM

arch.7 came originally from my wiki page but I suspect someone else added this note. In any case I don't think this useful information for this page, independent of whether the macro name is spelled correctly or not.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Wed, Oct 1, 9:37 AM

PDP_ENDIAN was the spelling. It was also the order for a subset of pdp-11 compilers.

Might be, keep the note but replace the symbol by a descriptive text?

Might be, keep the note but replace the symbol by a descriptive text?

I suppose we could use something like "Middle endian is not used on FreeBSD." but I'm not sure there's a lot of value here for a quick reference guide -- I don't think users today would be expecting anything other than big and little endian, so there's no need to call it out.

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