Re: A question about architecture and byte order with RPMs

["Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>]

> I've been asking the compiler people for a storage class modifier that could
> be added to type declarations.  The modifier would indicate whether the
> data object is stored in big-endian or little-endian format.
> The compiler would generate byte swizzles or not, depending on whether
> the native execution mode agrees with the indicated storage class.

or you could always look at the gokhale/minnich paper from 1993 (SEDMS) in
which we built a compiler that did just that, conforming to the IEEE
1596.5 standard (which I helped get going along with David James). It's 
not that hard.

We did a bit more than that, maybe too much more, but still ...

I still think it's a good idea :-)

ron