On 02/01/2012 11:51 AM, David Riley wrote:
ARMs have selectable endianness, too, though I
can't recall an
implementation that ran them big-endian. Anyone recall any?
I do not.
One of the things I loved about PowerPC was that the
endianness was
switchable at run-time (though I'm given to understand that never
worked all that well) and there were penalty-free byte-reversed load
and store instructions.
Very nice.
MIPS has selectable endianness as well.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA