Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order

Henrik Olsen (henrik@iaeste.dk)
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 07:56:50 +0100 (CET)

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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Cort Dougan wrote:
> For reference, the choice isn't arbitrary on all chips. The PPC takes a
> minor performance hit when operating in LE mode and does some inconvenient
> things when in LE mode (resulting in more work needing to be done in
> software).
>
> It's not clear yet that the ia64 is a sane architecture.
>
> }So, anyways, with a sane cpu it's a non-issue.
Sane enough that NT, Solaris and SCO Unix will be little-endian and HP-UX
will be big-endian according to the HP whitepaper on endianness on the
IA-64.

-- Henrik Olsen, Dawn Solutions I/S URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/ Get the rest there.

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