Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I'd guess that outside of certain code dealing with MS filesystems, and
> device drivers dealing with little-endian registers, there is probably
> little other use of little-endian data on SPARC systems.
The X11 protocol is defined as having the client send native-endian and the
server swap if needed, so we do byteswapping on the SPARC when an x86 X client
connects to a SPARC X server, and of course, a bunch of graphics cards fall
into the device drivers category you noted before.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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