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From: gnb@melba.bby.oz (Gregory N. Bond)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Rx000 byteorder
Message-ID: <76@melba.oz>
Date: 16 Jan 89 22:28:28 GMT
Reply-To: gnb@melba.bby.oz.au
Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne
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With regard to DEC using the MIPS chip in little-endian mode:

Is it reasonably simple to provide a binary translator to change
a big-endian binary to a little-endian binary?  Could you then
easily recognise system calls and convert them?

In short, convert DEC/Ultrix/little-endian to MIPSCO/sysV/big-endian?

After all, the compilers & machine code are the same...

Greg.
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Gregory Bond, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
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