I won't try to justify EBCDIC, but big-endian rules! :-) ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 3:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RFE? xlc compile option for C integers to be "Intel compat" or Little-Endian
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 20:29:22 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >There are big-endian machines other than z. Shouldn't you investigate how the >issue is dealt with outside of z before asking for z exclusive language >extensions? > Yes. But big-endian is a vanishing breed. Motorola 68K is gone; PowerPC is mostly gone, and its endianness was selectable. There's little interest in Sparc. Others? Dismayinglly, big-endian may come to be perceived as the same sort of lunatic fringe as EBCDIC, and support will evaporate with the scarcity of testing platforms. But the EBCDIC nightmare can be avoided: Linux runs fine on z hardware. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
