[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8568: Make Haiku endian independent
- From: "cb88" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 04:04:12 -0000
#8568: Make Haiku endian independent
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Reporter: jscipione | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: - General | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by cb88):
"Some architectures (including ARM versions 3 and above, PowerPC, Alpha,
SPARC V9, MIPS, PA-RISC and IA-64)" (wikipedia) are bi-endian... I recall
reading specifically elsewhere than sparcv9 is however sparcv8 is not. It
allows more efficient addressing for devices etc... at least supposedly
not sure if any OS uses that support.
Technically, you could have more code hidden there in the macro. Just
because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8568#comment:2>
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