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Re: endian attribute: setting or register?
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: endian attribute: setting or register?
- From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 06:44:35 -0400
- Cc: sid at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <15125.52543.384486.691062@scooby.apac.redhat.com>
Hi -
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:49:03PM +1000, Ben Elliston wrote:
: The current base cpu classes include an "endian" attribute -- it's
: currently added as a "register" type attribute. Should it be a
: "setting" instead?
Yes and no: some CPUs can switch endianness on the fly.
: [...] by changing it, we save valuable real estate in
: tksm's gui for the multitide of physical cpu registers
: that may be listed. [...]
tksm should be smarter about the layout of the attribute list windows.
- FChE
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