On 19 May 2011 23:39, Seth Grover <sethdgro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings! > > Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC#Endian_modes) states: > > "Most PowerPC chips switch endianness via a bit in the MSR (Machine > State Register), with a second bit provided to allow the OS to run > with a different endianness." > > So the way I am understanding this is that the PPC architecture is > capable of running in little-endian mode depending on a register flag > that can be set. And that's about the end of my knowledge on the > subject. > > My question is this: does anyone have any experience with running PPC > in little endian mode? And would FPC-compiled programs (specifically > I'm cross compiling to powerpc-linux from x86_64-linux) targeted at > PPC work in a little endian mode setup?
Sorry, I don't. You definitely have to fiddle with the endian settings under the relevant section of compiler/systems/i_linux.pas before you build your cross compiler, though. Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
