[llvm-dev] Endianness for multi-word types

[Tim Shen via llvm-dev]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:34 PM Tim Shen <timshen at google.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:24 PM Gao, Yunzhong <
> yunzhong_gao at playstation.sony.com> wrote:
>
>> According to
>> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi.html,
>> "The high-order double-precision value (the one that comes first in
>> storage) must have the larger magnitude."
>>
>> So the order of the two doubles in your fp128 is not affected by the
>> endianness; although each individual double is.
>>
>
> Of this part it's pretty clear, so I guess my questions are, more
> specifically:
> 1) Why
>

Eeh, sorry, premature email accidentally sent :(
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