[fpc-devel] help with softfloat for arm big endian crosscompiler

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Wed, 13 Dec 2006, schreef Micha Nelissen:

> Michael Schnell wrote:
> > > In theory yes, in practice probably not.
> > In the ARM-Linux developers list I have been told that ARM always is us=
ed
> > in little endian mode. I have no idea why.
> =

> Intel XScale (at least) is used as big-endian arm.

Hola, most modern ARM cpu's support big endian, that is not the point. =

Question is how many an big endian platforms exists, and this is not so =

popular, because even if you switch the cpu to big endian, the underlying =

hardware remains little endian (with the cpu doing the conversion). This =

means that driver code etc. suddenly needs to care about endian =

conversions.

An Intel Xscale system running Linux or Windows CE is always running in =

little endian mode, which propably covers an already important part of =

the ARM cpu's  in use.

Dani=EBl