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Re: "Endian and objdump"
- To: xinant at cognigine dot com
- Subject: Re: "Endian and objdump"
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:14:29 -0400
- CC: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <3B2933EA.1070408@cognigine.com>
> If an assembler is configured as the little endian mode
> for both the host (Linux) and the target, and the binary
> code expected should looks like
The endianness of the *host* should be irrelevent. The target doesn't
care how the host interprets data, nor should the programmer. Display
the data in a way that makes sense for the target, and ignore the host
endianness.