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Re: Endianness query



Nope.  This requires all sorts of messiness (what's the endianness of
interrupt handlers? Etc.).

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 04:32:17PM +0000, David Given wrote:
> According to my PowerPC architecture manual, the PowerPC can be switched from 
> big-endian to little-endian mode. Does PowerPC Linux support this? I have 
> heard rumours that the endianness can be switched on a per-process basis. Can 
> anyone enlighten me? I could really, really use this.
> 
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Dan

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