Re: Help: How to determine big/little endian?

Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>
Fri, 1 Sep 1995 16:26:54 GMT

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Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 16:26:54 GMT

| The interface flag little_endian classifies the target, but
| nothing in the interface classifies the host. LCC classifies the
| host automatically during initialization:


...


I'm aware of at least one current machine, where integer and floats
were of different endian orientations. This means that simple tests
in integer mode don't necessarily carry over to floats.


Also note that immediates in the ns32k must be ordered in a big endian
fashion, even though the chip is little endian.


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