On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:29:21PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: > David Kelly wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote:
[...] > >>I'm sure it has been answered somewhere, but I can't find it - which > >>FreeBSD archs are little/big endian? Thanks. > > >i386 is little endian. Would expect ia64 to be the same. > > SPARC is big endian. Or at least it used to be..... > > Power4,5,6 are all big endian too if I'm not mistaken. > > Correct me if I'm wrong but anything based around the CISC > architecture is big endian. Believe the O.P. is asking, "What endian is FreeBSD on these architectures?" If I was making an application that needed endian information then I'd look in arpa/inet.h and machine/endian.h to discover what I was running on. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
