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From: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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Subject: FreeBSD Alpha. Which endian?
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Hi,
Big-endian and little-endian question.

I remember that when the Alpha cpu was designed one of the features
was the ability to switched to be big-endian or little-endian format
for a particular operating system.

Will FreeBSD/Alpha be using the same endian format that
FreeBSD/i386 uses?

BTW, which endian format does the 386 user. Big or little. I
forget. :-)

Cheers
Roger

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