1 Feb
2012
1 Feb
'12
4:51 p.m.
On Feb 1, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
Well, it's heading that way, and I'll take that in a heartbeat over x86.
ARMs have selectable endianness, too, though I can't recall an implementation that ran
them big-endian. Anyone recall any?
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.
- Dave
Of course,
some still wrote code as if "all the world's VAX," followed by "all the
world's a SPARC," and of course we all know what the world is now...
ARM?