Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:05:26 -0800 From: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> Subject: Re: Endianness Message-ID: <b025ceb71001121405q3f910d0td4b7ec288e98f14c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100112215128.GA95072@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <b025ceb71001121251m77ae380fs129699f7bd2a896e@mail.gmail.com> <20100112210427.GB18673@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <4B4CE9B1.4040508@netscape.net> <20100112215128.GA95072@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:51 PM, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: >> David Kelly wrote: >> >On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: > > [...] > >> >>I'm sure it has been answered somewhere, but I can't find it - which >> >>FreeBSD archs are little/big endian? Thanks. >> >> >i386 is little endian. Would expect ia64 to be the same. >> >> SPARC is big endian. Or at least it used to be..... >> >> Power4,5,6 are all big endian too if I'm not mistaken. >> >> Correct me if I'm wrong but anything based around the CISC >> architecture is big endian. > > Believe the O.P. is asking, "What endian is FreeBSD on these > architectures?" > > If I was making an application that needed endian information then I'd > look in arpa/inet.h and machine/endian.h to discover what I was running > on. Ah - thanks for the pointer - I was looking at /src/sys/sys/endian.h rather than the machine specific versions, which is why I didn't get anything out of it. For the archives, it appears that amd64, arm, i386, ia64, and pc98 are little endian. -- Rob Farmer > > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net > ======================================================================== > Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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