On Wednesday 18 October 2006 11:41 am, Shao Wu wrote: > I wonder are there any hardware instructions to perform byte swaps (endian > conversions) in SPARC? For example, if I open a data file that is stored > in little-endian format, I would like to be able to read and convert the > data as efficiently as possible. It would be very nice if I can mmap the > data regions (as it were in big endian) and monkey with the data > natives.... but that is too much to ask....
Good reason to use ZFS, then you never have to worry about it, just read and write the file on whatever architecture. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
