[M3devel] 64-bit big endian?

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Mon Aug 26 20:41:05 CEST 2013


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 01:22:10PM -0500, Rodney M. Bates wrote:
> I accidentally found the answer to this while working on a different problem.
> The files in cminstall/src/config-no-install/<machine>.common, etc. contain both
> endianness and word size for the targets we support.  These are also installed
> in /usr/local/cm3/bin/config.
> 
> HPPA64, MIPS64, SPARC64

MIPS is a bi-endian platform. There are a little-endian MIPS64 boxes also,
but I guess from your post M3 wouldn't support them.

SPARC64 is also technically bi-endian for data although I don't know if any
OS runs little-endian on it. All the "normal" stuff that runs on it is big
endian.





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