endian attribute: setting or register?

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:49:03PM +1000, Ben Elliston wrote:
: The current base cpu classes include an "endian" attribute -- it's
: currently added as a "register" type attribute.  Should it be a
: "setting" instead?  

Yes and no: some CPUs can switch endianness on the fly.

: [...] by changing it, we save valuable real estate in
: tksm's gui for the multitide of physical cpu registers
: that may be listed.  [...]

tksm should be smarter about the layout of the attribute list windows.


- FChE
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