On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Andrew Phillips wrote:

> Johnny Billquist Wrote:
> >
> >Obscure note on the pdp-11: it's actually middle-endian. :-)
> >A 32-bit integer is stored as 3412.
> >(Using the FP-11 for 32-bit stuff)
> >
> 
>      There's not many machines that have an Endian type
>      defined specifically for them. 
> 	
>      lq~> grep ENDIAN /usr/include/endian.h
>      #define __LITTLE_ENDIAN 1234
>      #define __BIG_ENDIAN    4321
>      #define __PDP_ENDIAN    3412
>      
>      The year noted in the header of the glibc2 
>      /usr/include/endian.h is 1996. 
>      
>      Kind of puts the "legacy" in legacy platform.

:-)

I remember that someone made a cross-compiler port of GCC for the PDP-11
some years ago...
(No way it will ever run natively)

Anyway. Back to the VAX contents, I guess...

	Johnny

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