From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Aug 27 11:19:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24323 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:19:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24318 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:19:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA10684; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 19:18:41 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 19:18:41 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Roger Hardiman cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Alpha. Which endian? In-Reply-To: <35E58E83.446B@cs.strath.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Roger Hardiman wrote: > 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? All of the alpha unices use little endian as far I know and FreeBSD will be no exception. > > BTW, which endian format does the 386 user. Big or little. I > forget. :-) little :-) -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message