> If your target is big-endian, your port of Lua is big endian too, both
> on the emulator and the target. Thus, the bytecode compiled with luac
> on the PC will have to be byte-swapped at some point.
>
> Wouldn't it be easier to port luac to your target too and run it in
> the emulator? The resultant bytecode should run without any further
> swapping on both emulator and real hardware
>
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>
> On 10/6/11, Jeff Smith <
spammealot1@live.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > > > As this is fundamentally still running on a big endian PC.....
> > Oops typo, I meant to say Little Endian I compiled the binary using standard
> > Luac on PC using Visual Studio 2008. Then ran that on PC target Simulator
> > again using VS2008, so it should have worked fine unless the bytecode
> > compiler does something silly like encode the absolute address of the print
> > function within the binary, but I am pretty sure it wouldnt encode in that
> > manner. I must be missing some other subtlety I believe both VS Studio and
> > the Target Compiler (CodeWarrior) are both IEE754 compliant, but I have got
> > to get past this first problem before its worth trying on the Target board.
> > Regards Geoff
> >
>
>
> --
> Javier
>
