From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3422 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2005 09:51:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 3403 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jun 2005 09:51:13 -0000 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (HELO wproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.184.205) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:51:13 +0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so325219wra for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.32.15 with SMTP id f15mr876324wrf; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.84.5 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 02:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9305ca41050610025175f9a8fe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:51:00 -0000 From: Peter Korsgaard Reply-To: Peter Korsgaard To: Sujoy Ray Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20050610084057.54361.qmail@web53402.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050610084057.54361.qmail@web53402.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [ECOS] IXP425 Big Endian Mode X-SW-Source: 2005-06/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 On 6/10/05, Sujoy Ray wrote: > big-endian order. Now, I have a question - how the > processor executes the above mentioned code, when it > is in little endian mode. I know for sure that there > is some way to do that because the code works fine. I > think 'am missing some basic concept - any suggestion > will be highly appreciated. big/little endian mode only matters for 8 and 16bit accesses, and the instructions are 32bit. See http://www.intel.com/design/network/applnots/25423701.pdf for details. --=20 Bye, Peter Korsgaard -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss