From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Endian and Ada
Date: 1996/04/11
Date: 1996-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Apr11.193521.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4kevdl$254a@flute.aix.calpoly.edu
In article <4kevdl$254a@flute.aix.calpoly.edu>, mporcell@flute.aix.calpoly.edu (Michael Anthony Porcelli) writes:
> 7. Processors that switch from big to little. I've only heard of these and
> I don't know if they are actually out on the market yet. I do believe that
> HP (and others) are working on making architectures that can run in either
> big or little endian mode.
The Alpha AXP 21064 processor introduced by DEC in 1992 is reasonably
endian-neutral since it leaves byte manipulation to the compilers.
A typical instruction sequence might be slightly biased toward being
little-endian due to an extra instruction being used for computing
offsets, but it is a close match.
It happens that DEC's compilers are little-endian, but the one you
write could be big-endian.
Larry Kilgallen
LJK Software
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-04-08 0:00 Endian and Ada Michael Anthony Porcelli
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Joseph Wisniewski
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Thomas Koenig
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Kelly Grant
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Michael Anthony Porcelli
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Michael Anthony Porcelli
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1996-04-14 0:00 ` LJMetzger
1996-04-17 0:00 ` phil
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1996-04-18 0:00 Bob Crispen
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