Re: [OT] The Ramifications of Little-Endian Packed Decimal

From: Andrew Reilly (andrew_at_gurney.reilly.home)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 02:04:51 GMT

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:51:18 +0000, jsavard wrote:
> So, after I considered this - after seeing the cataclysmic results of
> changing the bit while executing code whose interpretation is affected by
> it, on a system that implements endianness-change by means of bit munging
> - I realized there was _another_ alternative.
>
> Define endianness in the *segment registers*, so that you can change the
> data segment from big-endian to little-endian while leaving the code
> segment alone!

Sorry for butting in late into this thread, but could you please give a
quick summary for why this capability would be at all useful? Can't
imagine it, myself. 

-- 
Andrew
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