On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 01:39:08PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > One item to add to this is byte order. It's surprising how often that is > a factor. The Intel byte order is different from mainframes. > > What this can mean is that data directly written on an Intel box, cannot > be directly read on a mainframe box (unless, of course, the programmer > was aware of this issue.) > > I would hazard a guess that byte order is more of an issue than in-line > assembly source for most people.
While byte order is a certainly a factor, it is not specific to the 390 platform, and so is less likely to be an issue than truly platform-specific code. Any programs which already work on SPARC or big-endian PowerPC, for example, will already have dealt with any endianness issues. -- - mdz
