[ECOS] help! redboot console - Checked by AntiVir DEMO version - -

[Roland Caßebohm]

Am Montag, 10. Mai 2004 05:13 schrieb Paul D. DeRocco:
> > From: kneep
> >
> > 	Does endian affect the byte order of a STRING?
>
> When an object file is loaded, the data in it are loaded
> 32 bits at a time, not a byte at a time, so any
> disagreement between the order will show up as reversed
> bytes within each 32-bit word.
>
> > 	And I confirm that Redboot is compiled as big-endian
> > and my machine is running big-endian because everything
> > goes well except that problem.
> > 	So what will the point be?
>
> Don't know. But it sure smells like a
> big-endian/little-endian problem. You say you're running
> a RAM-based redboot. Does that mean that you're using
> something else to load redboot? If so, does that support
> big-endian mode?

Are you sure that you don't combile it as little-endian and 
than use a tool which only swaps the bytes from little to 
big endian?

Roland
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