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Re: Big and little endian issue
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- Subject: Re: Big and little endian issue
- From: "John R Pierce" <pierce@hogranch.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 20:34:55 -0700
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>Maybe we should start some parallel contests for the
>shortest BE/LE swapping routines for the most used CPU's
>and get the "problem" out of this world that way?
x86 assembler ever since the 486:
mov <32bit reg>, <data>
BSWAP <32bit reg>
nuff said? 1 clock on 486 and pentii
I believe a lot of risc type processors have the equivalent operation.
-jrp