Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Tue, 09 Mar 1999 18:43:18 -0800 (PST)

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On 09-Mar-99 Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>
> Is it too stupid to suggest an "ENDIANNESS" flag for mmap ? The overhead
> for loading a page from disk is much bigger than the overhead for
> rearranging the bytes. (Perhaps it should be not a flag but an ioctl..)

That would inhibit sharing between processes unless all mappings are for the
same endianness.

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