2011/8/30 stefan brunthaler <stefan at brunthaler.net> > > Do I sense that the bytecode format is no longer platform-independent? > > That will need a bit of discussion. I bet there are some things around > > that depend on that. > > > Hm, I haven't really thought about that in detail and for longer, I > ran it on PowerPC 970 and Intel Atom & i7 without problems (the latter > ones are a non-issue) and think that it can be portable. I just stuff > argument and opcode into one word for regular instruction decoding > like a RISC CPU, and I realize there might be little/big endian > issues, but they surely can be conditionally compiled... > > --stefan > I think that you must deal with big endianess because some RISC can't handle at all data in little endian format. In WPython I have wrote some macros which handle both endianess, but lacking big endian machines I never had the opportunity to verify if something was wrong. Regards Cesare -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20110831/20bb9b25/attachment.html>
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