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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:58:33 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] One little, two little, three little endian...
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>>>>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 10:11:56 -0600, Mario Smarduch <cms063@email.mot.com> said:

  Mario> David a quick question. Even though the library problem is
  Mario> overcomed, how would signal handling be accomplished by an
  Mario> application running in big-endian. Doesn't the kernel fill in
  Mario> the siginfo and context while runing in little endian?

Yes, signal-handling would have to be adjusted, just like we do for an
x86 process (the signal stack format is somewhat different for hp-ux
at any rate, so it's more than just endianness).

	--david