On 1/27/09 3:24 PM, Jeremy Pereira said: >> Leopard is little endian ( at least on >> the intel chips, but I have read there are other macs that are >> big-endian, so I am trying to catch and handle that accordingly) > >The endianness is dependent on the processor architecture, not the >operating system. Intel Macs are little endian, but PowerPC Macs are >big endian no matter which OS is running on them.
The PowerPC in fact can run as big or little endian, see: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC#Endian_modes> You can switch this setting in Open Firmware. Mac OS however only supports the PPC in big endian mode. -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng [email protected] Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
