Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 19:18:41 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Alpha. Which endian? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808271917590.17263-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <35E58E83.446B@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Roger Hardiman wrote: > Hi, > Big-endian and little-endian question. > > I remember that when the Alpha cpu was designed one of the features > was the ability to switched to be big-endian or little-endian format > for a particular operating system. > > Will FreeBSD/Alpha be using the same endian format that > FreeBSD/i386 uses? All of the alpha unices use little endian as far I know and FreeBSD will be no exception. > > BTW, which endian format does the 386 user. Big or little. I > forget. :-) little :-) -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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