Endian[n]ess, language-specific problems and help with egcs.

Charles M. Hannum mycroft@mit.edu
Tue Aug 18 12:42:00 GMT 1998


> 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.




More information about the Gcc mailing list