Re: prebuilding 32-bit caches on a 64-bit system
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:12:00 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > there's also pdp endian, but that's probably never been tested > anywhere, and fontconfig should just delete it. You mean the way 32-bit integers were arranged on the PDP-11? 16-bit integers were little-endian, but for some reason for 32-bit, the high word was put at the lower address. So the byte numbering, instead of going 0-1-2-3 as per usual little-endian, was 2-3-0-1. Of course, this was purely a software convention, since the hardware was entirely 16-bit. Sorry, just had a flashback there to my misspent youth. Carry on... _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig