Subject: Re: mipseb and mipsel
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
From: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: port-mips
Date: 09/24/2001 03:06:19
>> Just to be sure: There is no way of running a little endian MIPS binary
>> on a big endian MIPS system, right?

> Certainly for the forseeable future you can assume your statement is
> true...

If you are implementing something, probably you can assume your
statement is true. But if you are designing something (e.g. file
format, kernel i/f, or something), you shouldn't assume that. Because:

> Technically individual processes can run with the opposite endianness on
> r4k and above processors,
--
soda