On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:57:33 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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. I seem to remember that 64-bit byte order was somewhat of a challenge... Linux worked on alpha just fine, but 390x used a different byte-order. john
