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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-08-21 15:39:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-08-21 15:39:35 +0000 |
| commit | b84d4f81fd7f50ce896c753a15a85cba48f9ed80 (patch) | |
| tree | 7553dbbd2961e3dc6bdb2de00896da9bb4c5208f /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | d4ad863d67925b9ee11642aee9c9257c020e4f2d (diff) | |
| download | perl-b84d4f81fd7f50ce896c753a15a85cba48f9ed80.tar.gz | |
Document the endianness of Alpha more precisely.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6744
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index cc1393faa1..977261936f 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -3156,10 +3156,10 @@ because they obey the native byteorder and endianness. For example a 0x12 0x34 0x56 0x78 # big-endian 0x78 0x56 0x34 0x12 # little-endian -Basically, the Intel, Alpha, and VAX CPUs are little-endian, while -everybody else, for example Motorola m68k/88k, PPC, Sparc, HP PA, -Power, and Cray are big-endian. MIPS can be either: Digital used it -in little-endian mode; SGI uses it in big-endian mode. +Basically, the Intel and VAX CPUs are little-endian, while everybody +else, for example Motorola m68k/88k, PPC, Sparc, HP PA, Power, and +Cray are big-endian. Alpha and MIPS can be either: Digital/Compaq +used/uses them in little-endian mode; SGI/Cray uses them in big-endian mode. The names `big-endian' and `little-endian' are comic references to the classic "Gulliver's Travels" (via the paper "On Holy Wars and a |