Re: Byte ordering

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From: Roland McGrath
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1990 23:31

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Obviously, for some purposes big-endian is better, and for some purposes
little-endian is better.  I suppose even twisted-endian (least-significant byte
first in words, but most-significant word first in longwords) is good for
something.

I think the solution for the architects is to have it selectable.  The Intel
860, the AMD 29000, and I'm sure others I don't know about, have this feature:
a bit in the processor control register determines byte order.
--
	Roland McGrath
	Free Software Foundation, Inc.
roland@ai.mit.edu, uunet!ai.mit.edu!roland

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