From: "David A. Gatwood" <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org>
To: Michael Norton <mnorton@cisco.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: BIG ENDIAN or LITTLE ENDIAN
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:25:31 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1001029102424.31042A-100000@deepspace.mklinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200010282019.NAA19248@cisco.com>
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Michael Norton wrote:
> I am working on some code that is particuliar of byte ordering. Is the
> G4, running PPC 2000 a BIG_ENDIAN machine?
All PowerPC machines running Linux are big-endian, by nature. There's a
little-endian hack... err... mode in the processor, but I'm not aware of
any OS that uses it except possibly the ill-fated Windows NT port that was
never released.... :-/
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-29 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-28 20:19 BIG ENDIAN or LITTLE ENDIAN Michael Norton
2000-10-28 20:39 ` Tom Vier
2000-10-28 22:12 ` David Riley
2000-10-29 18:25 ` David A. Gatwood [this message]
2000-10-29 18:18 ` NT PPC Hollis R Blanchard
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