[remote] Make registers network byteordered?

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Wed Dec 6 03:51:00 GMT 2000


cagney wrote:

: [...]
: > What's the point?  Simply that registers don't have an endianness?
: 
: Several motivations:
: [...]
: 	o	I've had it with trying to read
: 		what are endian independant values
: 		backwards.

Certainly a laudable goal.  What would be the corresponding syntax for
the `g' and `p'/`P' packets?  Is there any intended support for
mismatching register sizes (e.g., 4-byte vs sign-extended 8-byte MIPS
pointers)?

- FChE


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