Power processors are still available and in use, (generally running Linux, but also AIX if I understand correctly), so it would be premature to assume that ooRexx should ignore -endianness. See http://openpowerfoundation.org/technical/openpower-ready/
Leslie On 2016-08-17 14:52:23 Mike Cowlishaw wrote: > OK thanks. > > [On big-endian platforms, you may be forgetting System Z.] > > Mike > > > > > No, it runs on Intel these days. Besides Power and Sparc there are not many > big endian platforms anymore. ARM can do both, but runs little endian > mostly the days. > Moritz > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 06:09 Mike Cowlishaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > [Off-topic side-question.] > > I had (and still have) a virtual machine with a stand-alone Darwin > operating system, because it was the only big-endian PC operating system > that I could find for testing arithmetic code that was endian-sensitive. > > Just wondering if it is still big-endian? > > Mike -- A Caution to Everybody Consider the Auk; Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk. Consider man, who may well become extinct Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked. -- Ogden Nash ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
