Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2053 from 2003/6/4
It is primarily for backward compability, but also some code (e.g. Hooks) must get adapted to compile correctly under a different endianess than it was originally intended for.
For backward compability (68k and ppc) I think it can be concentrated to the following question: what happens if some program calls 0x00000004, does it get Exec base or does it not? If not it will probably crash.
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