On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:26:03AM -0700, John Alvord wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:57:33 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >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.
Hmm, alpha uses 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 as I would expect (little endian). Does s390x use something other than 88 77 66 55 44 33 22 11? I don't have a system handy to test it. -- - mdz
