From: Michael Paus <pausnospam@nospamib-paus.com>
Subject: Re: Interoperability: differing storage units and/or endianess
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:54:02 +0100
Date: 2004-02-20T11:54:02+01:00 [thread overview]
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Stephen Leake wrote:
> Michael Paus <pausnospam@nospamib-paus.com> writes:
>
>
>>Bibb Latting wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi, I am working on a distributed application where the processors
>>>have differing storage unit sizes and/or endianess. My problem is how
>>>to handle the specification of memory contents and the delivery of
>>>data to applications with minimal variation between implementations.
>>>I'd like to know what solutions have worked well for others.
>>
>>And I'd like to know which currently used processors have a storage
>>unit size other than 8.
>
>
> Many DSPs use 16 bit words.
Interesting! I haven't worked with DSPs for a very long time. Could
you tell me how they map, e.g. a character. Does it always have
16 bits or don't they have the type character at all anymore?
Michael
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-19 12:29 Interoperability: differing storage units and/or endianess Bibb Latting
2004-02-19 17:23 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-02-20 13:52 ` Martin Dowie
2004-02-20 7:41 ` Michael Paus
2004-02-20 8:56 ` Stephen Leake
2004-02-20 10:54 ` Michael Paus [this message]
2004-02-20 13:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-02-20 12:43 ` Petter Fryklund
2004-02-20 20:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-02-21 5:34 ` Steve
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