Re: Dr. Brian Gladman -- does anyone know how to contact him?


"Thomas Pornin" <pornin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47c54f1a$0$24462$426a74cc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
According to usenet.plus.net <brg@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Although I have tested this on little endian systems, I don't have a
big endian system so I would appreciate any help people might be able
to offer in testing it on such systems.

You might want to try an emulated big-endian system. Qemu allegedly is
able to emulate a Sparc-based machine, enough to boot and run a Linux OS
for Sparc, so you can get a big-endian OS on a plain x86 PC. It will not
help you with performance and optimization issues, but at least it
should tell you if you got the bytes in right order.

see: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/index.html

(I am not sure it properly traps unaligned accesses -- I will have
to try.)


Another source of big-endian machines is HP testdrive. See:
http://www.testdrive.hp.com/

There you can get (for free !) shell access on some machines maintained
by HP. Among the available systems are some Itanium machines; those
running HP-UX use it in big-endian mode.

Thanks for your helpful input, Thomas - I'll check these options out.

Brian

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