[fpc-pascal] Endian issues when porting FPC programs from x86 to other platforms

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

> Or maybe this is a moot question if FPC is only so far running on
> platforms that have the same endian as x86 CPU:s? I have no
> information on this though...
> 
> I can see at least these targets:
> - Windows and Linux on x86 CPU:s
> - Embedded Linux on ARM CPU:s

Sparc, PowerPC are big endian, there is an ARM big endian target too.

Use BEtoN, NtoBE if the source is known to be big endian.

(http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/beton.html)
(http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/ntobe.html)

Hth,
  Thomas