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diff --git a/gettext-tools/doc/msgfmt.texi b/gettext-tools/doc/msgfmt.texi index a6fefcd..90350cb 100644 --- a/gettext-tools/doc/msgfmt.texi +++ b/gettext-tools/doc/msgfmt.texi @@ -382,14 +382,13 @@ Align strings to @var{number} bytes (default: 1). @item --endianness=@var{byteorder} @opindex --endianness@r{, @code{msgfmt} option} Write out 32-bit numbers in the given byte order. The possible values are -@code{big} and @code{little}. The default depends on the platform, namely -on the endianness of the CPU. +@code{big} and @code{little}. The default is @code{little}. MO files of any endianness can be used on any platform. When a MO file has an endianness other than the platform's one, the 32-bit numbers from the MO file are swapped at runtime. The performance impact is negligible. -This option can be useful to produce MO files that are independent of the +This option can be useful to produce MO files that are optimized for one platform. @item --no-hash |