David Kelly wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote:
I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on
little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS.  Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are bi-endian
and the OS chooses the mode. I'm not familiar with these platforms -
I'm sure it has been answered somewhere, but I can't find it - which
FreeBSD archs are little/big endian? Thanks.

i386 is little endian. Would expect ia64 to be the same.


SPARC is big endian. Or at least it used to be.....

Power4,5,6 are all big endian too if I'm not mistaken.

Correct me if I'm wrong but anything based around the CISC architecture is big endian.
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