From 05c059e563d88e277cbfb723449778c73ad94f8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Alex=20R=C3=B8nne=20Petersen?= <alex@alexrp.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:25:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] link.Lld: pass --be8 to ld.lld for armeb/thumbeb v6+

BE32 is deprecated and only supported by older cores and some v6 cores. All
cores v6 or newer support BE8, so default to that for v6+.

closes https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/31404
---
 src/link/Lld.zig | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/link/Lld.zig b/src/link/Lld.zig
index 5c7ba84623bde145063b4ff87b08434840ec43d9..9a6f4f392be21ebb3cae4a995c68d1a8fcbb6e87 100644
--- a/src/link/Lld.zig
+++ b/src/link/Lld.zig
@@ -871,6 +871,11 @@ fn elfLink(lld: *Lld, arena: Allocator) !void {
             try std.fmt.allocPrint(arena, "-float-abi={s}", .{if (target.abi.float() == .hard) "hard" else "soft"}),
         });
 
+        switch (target.cpu.arch) {
+            .armeb, .thumbeb => if (is_exe_or_dyn_lib and target.cpu.has(.arm, .has_v6)) try argv.append("--be8"),
+            else => {},
+        }
+
         if (comp.config.lto != .none) {
             switch (comp.root_mod.optimize_mode) {
                 .Debug => {},
-- 
2.54.0