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From: collins@unmvax.unm.edu (Bill Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Languages for the DS3100
Keywords: Langauages DS3100
Message-ID: <148@unmvax.unm.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 89 05:12:16 GMT
References: <1011@savax.UUCP> <208@crltrx.crl.dec.com>
Reply-To: collins@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Bill Collins)
Organization: University of New Mexico at Albuquerque
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In article <208@crltrx.crl.dec.com> treese@crltrx.crl.dec.com (Win Treese) writes:
>In article <1011@savax.UUCP> sohail@savax.UUCP (Sohail Hussain) writes:
>>One final question on the 3100, can you use a 3100 to develop
>>code to run on a mips M series machine,  ie generate code for
>>BIG_ENDIAN vs LITTLE_ENDIAN?
>
>Nope.
Really?  I was under the impression that you may alter the compilation with
the -EL and -EB options on the compilers supplied from MIPS.(What dec had
eurchased from MIPS for the DS3100)  There is, of course, more than just the
byte order to consider depending on the aplication.

					Bill