Henry and Jonas, thanks a lot for your responses and giving me an idea of at least where I'd want to start looking if that were the case. Honestly it's something of a pipe dream at the moment, so who knows if I'll even go down that path, but you've given me a place to begin if I do.
Have a good weekend, -SG -- This email is fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Seth Grover On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:39 PM, 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? > > Thanks, > > -SG > > -- > This email is fiction. Any resemblance to actual events > or persons living or dead is purely coincidental. > > Seth Grover > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
