17 Oct
2006
17 Oct
'06
11 a.m.
Johan Råde wrote:
Martin Bonner wrote:
Are there any operating systems which actually allow this, or is a given processor/os combination a fixed endianness?
That is an important question. Does anyone know of any OS / processor combination that does not have fixed endianness?
I'm not completely certain, but I believe HP-UX falls into this category: the idea is that you can pass binary data from one platform to another, and just switch the endianness bit to access it natively (think distributed applications). John.