Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:51:28 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Kaya Saman <SamanKaya@netscape.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Endianness Message-ID: <20100112215128.GA95072@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <4B4CE9B1.4040508@netscape.net> References: <b025ceb71001121251m77ae380fs129699f7bd2a896e@mail.gmail.com> <20100112210427.GB18673@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <4B4CE9B1.4040508@netscape.net>
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > David Kelly wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: [...] > >>I'm sure it has been answered somewhere, but I can't find it - which > >>FreeBSD archs are little/big endian? Thanks. > > >i386 is little endian. Would expect ia64 to be the same. > > SPARC is big endian. Or at least it used to be..... > > Power4,5,6 are all big endian too if I'm not mistaken. > > Correct me if I'm wrong but anything based around the CISC > architecture is big endian. Believe the O.P. is asking, "What endian is FreeBSD on these architectures?" If I was making an application that needed endian information then I'd look in arpa/inet.h and machine/endian.h to discover what I was running on. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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