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Date:      Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:47:46 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mark Tinguely <tinguely@casselton.net>
To:        nb@synthcom.com
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 64bit integer problem?
Message-ID:  <200709191347.l8JDlkT2051407@casselton.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070919011453.U55860@synthcom.com>

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>  There isn't an ARM implementation that doesn't have little endian (or the 
>  option for big endian AFAIK). The bigger question is, why put the chip in 
>  big endian mode in the first place when little is the default?

In the XScale case, the (network) micro-engines are running in big endian.
Running the processor in big endian saves a lot of byte swapping.

--Mark Tinguely.



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