Re: FAT binaries and Linux

Patrick St. Jean (psj@cgmlarson.com)
Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:52:21 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Hardly possible. In order to do endian conversion correctly you have
> to know what size of object you're working on. Unless a program is
> especially written to enable sharing. In practice means it won't work ...

Wouldn't it also be a nasy performance hit? We'd have data that all the
platforms except one didn't have to reverse, or just the opposite...

Pat

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