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From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net>
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Subject: Re: Endianness
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote:
> I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on
> little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set
> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS.  Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are bi-endian
> and the OS chooses the mode. I'm not familiar with these platforms -
> 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.

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