Re: Native Endianess

2007-03-22 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Thursday 22 March 2007 01:11, Dan Weaver wrote: > Context: > The new Multiboot specification uses the term Native Endianess to imply > that big endian processors can load big endian objects and little endian > processors can load little endian objects. > > Ambiguity:

Re: Native Endianess

2007-03-21 Thread Dan Weaver
Context: The new Multiboot specification uses the term Native Endianess to imply that big endian processors can load big endian objects and little endian processors can load little endian objects. Ambiguity: The Power PC is considered a Big Endian machine but can be booted in little endian

Re: Native Endianess

2007-03-18 Thread Tomáš Ebenlendr
>> And on true 64 platforms it will be counterintuitive definition. >> > > I don't know what you mean by this. What is a "true 64 platform", and > what does that have to do with endianness? As there was no context in the message, the Daniel's definiton gives no sense for 64bit data as well as 16b

Re: Native Endianess

2007-03-18 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 12:49 +0100, Tomáš Ebenlendr wrote: > Dne 15 Březen 2007, 03:55, Hollis Blanchard napsal(a): > > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 09:47 -0800, Daniel Weaver wrote: > > > >> I would like to propose a definition for "Native Endianess" > >> > &

Re: Native Endianess

2007-03-15 Thread Tomáš Ebenlendr
Dne 15 Březen 2007, 03:55, Hollis Blanchard napsal(a): > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 09:47 -0800, Daniel Weaver wrote: > >> I would like to propose a definition for "Native Endianess" >> >> >> The data has Native Endianess when a 32-bit read will return the >

Re: Native Endianess

2007-03-14 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 09:47 -0800, Daniel Weaver wrote: > I would like to propose a definition for "Native Endianess" > > The data has Native Endianess when a 32-bit read will return the > correct value without byte swap. What on earth does that mean? :) "Correct va

Native Endianess

2007-03-07 Thread Daniel Weaver
I would like to propose a definition for "Native Endianess" The data has Native Endianess when a 32-bit read will return the correct value without byte swap. - Dan Weaver, ZNYX Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] __