Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 01:45 +0100, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: >> Michel Dänzer wrote: >>> So, while of course it's possible to define the order of the components >>> of 24 bit RGB formats differently on big endian CPUs than on little >>> endian CPUs, that is rather artificial and not directly related to >>> endianness. >> If you assume that the CPU can write 24 bit words at any byte address, >> it's endianness related :) > > I'm not sure I follow - are you thinking of 24 bit CPUs? :) If not, how > would you store 24 bit 'words' on a 32 bit CPU?
Right, using word here is not fully correct. I was thinking about CPUs which support atomic stores of something shorter than their word, but longer than one byte. -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list directfb-dev@directfb.org http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
