BIG ENDIAN or LITTLE ENDIAN

hi,

I am working on some code that is particuliar of byte ordering. Is the G4, running PPC 2000 a BIG_ENDIAN machine?

thanks,

Mike


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Michael Norton wrote:

hi,

I am working on some code that is particuliar of byte ordering. Is the G4, running PPC 2000 a BIG_ENDIAN machine?

I think this one was answered before, but...

LinuxPPC (and for that matter, most if not all PPC operating systems)
run in big endian.  The answer to your question in a word is "yes".

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On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, David A. Gatwood wrote:

All PowerPC machines running Linux are big-endian, by nature.  There's a
little-endian hack... err... mode in the processor, but I'm not aware of
any OS that uses it except possibly the ill-fated Windows NT port that was
never released....  :-/

It was released and it actually worked. If you have an NT 4.0 CD it's on
there.

The trick was finding software... SP1 and IE 2.0 don't take you very far.

-Hollis


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On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Michael Norton wrote:

I am working on some code that is particuliar of byte ordering. Is the
G4, running PPC 2000 a BIG_ENDIAN machine?

All PowerPC machines running Linux are big-endian, by nature.  There's a
little-endian hack... err... mode in the processor, but I'm not aware of
any OS that uses it except possibly the ill-fated Windows NT port that was
never released....  :-/


David

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