[ros-kernel] Different Hardware Architectures

[Robert Köpferl]

This is however a major problem.
Since varying endiannes is not foreseen in windows programming. For 
instance BeOS has dual endianness as an integral part of its programming 
uses. AFAIK there exists a header that provides endian macros in either 
ways (similar to _T()). In the MS-world nothing like this exists and 
milions of programs (writing/reading binary data) are not prepared for 
such thing.

Mike Nordell schrieb:

> Michael Rich wrote:
> 
> 
>>Actually everything I've read says that the G5/970 CPU has dropped the
>>feature that allowed it to run in either big or little endian mode.
> 
> 
> This would *force* us to care about both endianness issues and word-sizes. I
> see this as a good thing. For user-mode code it might not be very noticable,
> but for drivers... :-)
> 
> /Mike - why do I always get a kick out of a challenge?
> 
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