Hmmm.. Is that true? Okay, I sit corrected. 

clint


On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote:
> 
> > I've played around with various cross-compilers and linkers built
> > from GCC, and my recollection is the linker is complete endian
> > dependant. Since the x86 is the opposite (big,wrong) endian from the
> > VAX (little,right :), you have a major exercise to fix them. IIRC,
> > 'ld' doesn't even handle foreign archives (ie libraries) correctly,
> > and possibly 'ar' doesn't either.
> 
> Actually, both the x86 and VAX are little-endian...
> 
> 	Johnny
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