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Re: Endian[n]ess, language-specific problems and help with egcs.
- To: Gary Thomas <gdt at linuxppc dot org>
- Subject: Re: Endian[n]ess, language-specific problems and help with egcs.
- From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft at mit dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:43:04 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
> The PowerPC can support either endianess [more-or-less]
> equally well. That said, the PowerPC world is rather schizophrenic.
> Linux/PPC, MacOS, and BeOS are indeed running in BE mode.
...and NetBSD.
Actually, the MIPS is an even stranger case. We run on machines that
operate in both little-endian and big-endian modes.