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From: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>
To: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Elimination of all floating point code in the tiny assembler
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:48:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <343D27DA-5886-4C88-B892-075DA8A2AA26@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5472869a-ca19-f267-8b08-46d2e07c527c@hogyros.de>



> On Sep 14, 2023, at 4:38 AM, Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 9/14/23 16:49, jacob navia wrote:
> 
>> Big endian hosts have disappeared long ago.
> 
> In the hobbyist market, yes. POWER and zSeries still exist, and are in active use.

MIPS also supports either endian, and big endian appears to be commonly viewed as the primary choice. For that matter, the documentation states that ARM is bi-endian (with little endian being the common choice).

	paul



      reply	other threads:[~2023-09-14 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-10 17:41 jacob navia
2023-09-13 11:18 ` Nick Clifton
2023-09-13 13:54   ` Christian Groessler
2023-09-13 14:01     ` Paul Koning
2023-09-14  7:49   ` jacob navia
2023-09-14  8:35     ` Jan Beulich
2023-09-14 11:10       ` jacob navia
2023-09-14  8:38     ` Simon Richter
2023-09-14 13:48       ` Paul Koning [this message]

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