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Posts: 2239 from 2003/2/24
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Zylesea wrote:
The beefier ARMs hence don't have the benefit of an easier to accomplish binary compability.
Don't really see the problem here (or I failed to understand the linked text).
BE8 would still allow all system-structures to be 1:1 copies of 68k/PPC ones.
All data handled by an app internally can also be BE8 without problem.
The only thing we would need is an elf-loader making sure it load code-segments as LE and data-segments as BE (which I assume would be trivial).
Same for an 68k or PPC EMU, all data is BE and so is all legacy code (which is just data for the EMU), only the snippets of ARM-code it wants executed have to loaded a LE.
