Author: James B. Shearer
Date: 14:59:23 05/21/99
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On May 21, 1999 at 15:30:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>But in any case, Hsu said he can do it... so endian problems or not, I assume
>he can, since I did and I had far more extensive endian issues than they do...
>And handling 'endianness' on crafty took about 15 minutes to fix... if you
>look at "boolean.c" you see two versions of everything that is 'sensitive' to
>this problem... and the right version is selected by compile options.
Sure if you are careful it need not be a big problem. However in the
real world when you have a deadline to deliver something on a big endian machine
planning for eventual ports to a little endian machine is often omitted (if you
are even aware of the issue in the first place).
James B. Shearer
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