Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Rx000 byteorder Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 89 07:44:59 GMT References: <76@melba.oz> Sender: vixie@decwrl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 16 In-reply-to: gnb@melba.bby.oz's message of 16 Jan 89 22:28:28 GMT [Bond] # In short, convert DEC/Ultrix/little-endian to MIPSCO/sysV/big-endian? # # After all, the compilers & machine code are the same... Sounds like a good idea at first, but then you realize that all the syscall vector assignments are probably different. Maybe not all, but some. This is part of what an ABI would have specified. It's basically not worth the trouble of translating -- the little-end-MIPS and the big-end-MIPS should be thought of as distinct architectures (each with its place!) that have the same (fantastic!) compiler technology. -- Paul Vixie Work: vixie@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!vixie +1 415 853 6600 Play: paul@vixie.sf.ca.us vixie!paul +1 415 864 7013