From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:25:31 -0800 (PST) From: "David A. Gatwood" To: Michael Norton cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: BIG ENDIAN or LITTLE ENDIAN In-Reply-To: <200010282019.NAA19248@cisco.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my weekly web comic: http://www.techmagazine.org ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/