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Re: Bytes order and words order
- From: Matt Austern <austern at apple dot com>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- Cc: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:36:47 -0700
- Subject: Re: Bytes order and words order
On Friday, August 23, 2002, at 12:13 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| On the PPC a qNaN
| has the most significant fraction bit 1 and an sNaN has 0,
Yes, that is what I have on SPARCs too.
| and
| for MIPS it's the other way around.
See table B-2 in the MIPS IV Instruction Set reference,
which you can find at this rather inconvenient URL:
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/
download.cgi?coll=hdwr&db=bks&docnumber=007-2597-001
--Matt