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Re: [PATCH]: Little-endian for powerpc

From: Steven Munroe <munroesj at us dot ibm dot com>
To: Greg McGary <greg at mcgary dot org>
Cc: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:30:20 -0600
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Little-endian for powerpc
References: <ms64d7uygr.fsf@mcgary.org>

Greg McGary wrote:

This is basic LE infrastructure. There's more to do in the assembler stuff.

The primary platforms are powerpc32 and powerpc64 which are bigendian. No attempt has been made to make the PPC code endian neutral and the asm optimizations are in fact aggressively bigendian. I fact I am surprised that anyone is interrested in LE powerpc at this time.

Little endian for either 32- or 64-bit or represents a different ABI that is not interoperable with the current ABI. So as Uli suggests this support should start off in ports until you have time to resolve all the issues associated with Little-endian.

References:
- [PATCH]: Little-endian for powerpc
  - From: Greg McGary

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