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Re: Endianess
- To: Michael Gschwind <mikeg at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: Re: Endianess
- From: Stephen Williams <steve at icarus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 14:10:47 -0700
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
mikeg@watson.ibm.com said:
> What was a bit disconcerting to me was the use of phrases such as "PC
> compilers", and "workstations compilers" which is of course totally
> wrong because it's an architecture, not a compiler issue.
The MSVC++ compiler for alpha does 32bit integers, longs and pointers,
whereas the egcs compiler does 32bit integers but 64bit longs and pointers.
I think that the MIPS processor has little- and big-endian modes, selected
by compiler switches.
So, these are very much compiler issues. Of course, "workstation" and
"PC" are still meaningless adjectives:-)
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