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From: Steven Munroe <munroesj@us.ibm.com>
To: Greg McGary <greg@mcgary.org>
Cc: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Little-endian for powerpc
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4564CF7C.1060800@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ms64d7uygr.fsf@mcgary.org>

Greg McGary wrote:

>This is basic LE infrastructure.  There's more to do in the assembler stuff.
>  
>
The primary platforms are powerpc32 and powerpc64 which are bigendian. 
No attempt has been made to make the PPC code endian neutral and the asm 
optimizations are in fact aggressively bigendian. I fact I am surprised 
that anyone is interrested in LE powerpc at this time.

Little endian for either 32- or 64-bit or represents a different ABI 
that is not interoperable with the current ABI. So as Uli suggests this 
support should start off in ports until you have time to resolve all the 
issues associated with Little-endian.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-22 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-22 18:29 Greg McGary
2006-11-22 20:25 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-11-22 21:37 ` Steven Munroe [this message]

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