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From: zs01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Zalman Stern)
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Subject: Re: R3000A question ???
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[lewine@dg-rtp.dg.com (Donald Lewine) asks]
>       Also, what happens with shared libraries?  Do Xlib and Motif 
>       support the byte remapping?  Do you need TWO sets of shared
>       libraries?

Xlib and Motif already have code to deal with either byte order since the X
server may be on a machine of different byte-gender than the client.
(Actually, some of the code may be in the server instead. Either way, one
of the two programs does the conversion.) Byte-order tolerance is simply
part of writing portable code these days. Fortunately, packages like XDR
make this easier.

It should also be noted that both the Motorola 88k and AMD 29000 have
byte-order bits in their status registers.

Zalman Stern, MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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