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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