From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Interfaces.Shift_Left
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:13:10 +0000
Date: 2011-12-20T21:13:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zken6j6h.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9lcabeFgegU1@mid.individual.net
Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:
> Making a comment on my own post:
>
> On 11-12-20 21:38 , Niklas Holsti wrote:
>> On 11-12-20 02:38 , Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>>
>>> Not at all. My understanding is that virtually all recent processors are
>>> little-endian (and all of the new processors in common use).
>>
>> My Ada code was originally written for big-endian SPARC workstations and
>> needed porting to little-endian Intel PCs. I believe the SPARC is still
>> an actively developed architecture.
>
> ... but I just learned that the newer SPARCs are "bi-endian" and able
> to run in either big- or little-endian mode. So little-endian is
> gaining, which may in the end make little-endian record representation
> clauses portable, in practice. Good if that happens.
The same is I believe true of PowerPC and ARM. But it really depends on
the OS - and the peripherals! Dealing with a LE-designed peripheral vs a
BE processor/OS was fun.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-12 22:30 Interfaces.Shift_Left awdorrin
2011-12-12 23:34 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Simon Wright
2011-12-13 1:36 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Adam Beneschan
2011-12-13 12:00 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Brian Drummond
2011-12-13 13:15 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left awdorrin
2011-12-13 21:48 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Randy Brukardt
2011-12-14 18:28 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left awdorrin
2011-12-14 22:49 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Randy Brukardt
2011-12-15 9:51 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Niklas Holsti
2011-12-16 0:23 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Randy Brukardt
2011-12-18 20:47 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Niklas Holsti
2011-12-20 0:38 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Randy Brukardt
2011-12-20 2:18 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Shark8
2011-12-20 10:08 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-12-20 19:38 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Niklas Holsti
2011-12-20 20:46 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Niklas Holsti
2011-12-20 21:13 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2011-12-20 21:08 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Simon Wright
2011-12-20 23:26 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Randy Brukardt
2011-12-20 23:36 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Randy Brukardt
2011-12-21 0:44 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left Georg Bauhaus
2011-12-21 7:23 ` Interfaces.Shift_Left AdaMagica
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