May anyone please explain the endianness of returned values by readw and readl. I am currently using PowerPC arch.
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May anyone please explain the endianness of returned values by readw and readl .
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May anyone please explain the endianness of returned values by readw and readl. I am currently using PowerPC arch.
Thanks and Best Regards!
“readw” and “readl” return the value of the underlying architecture.
As it happens, a PowerPC can be either big- or little endian.
AFAIK, most Linux implementations run PPC in big-endian mode.