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-rw-r--r--sysdeps/mips/bits/endian.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/mips/bits/endian.h b/sysdeps/mips/bits/endian.h
index 92e97c708f..126059799d 100644
--- a/sysdeps/mips/bits/endian.h
+++ b/sysdeps/mips/bits/endian.h
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 /* The MIPS architecture has selectable endianness.
-   This file is for a machine using big-endian mode.  */
+   It exists in both little and big endian flavours and we
+   want to be able to share the installed header files between
+   both, so we define __BYTE_ORDER based on GCC's predefines.  */
 
 #ifndef _ENDIAN_H
 # error "Never use <bits/endian.h> directly; include <endian.h> instead."