Little Endian

~ · Post by ~ » Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:37 am

It seems that Little Endian is more straightforward than Big Endian, so I think that will be the priority for my projects.

One of the things that make it look better is that, for example, if I want to store a WORD in 0x100000 with QWORD-aligned value 0x00000000000000EF:

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mov rax,0x00000000000000EF
mov qword[0x100000],rax

I can properly gather it as a byte, a word, a double word or a quad-word, because the bytes are reversed:

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EF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

And addressing them will always start to the least significant byte, which readily enables me to gather the value in the size I like.

In Big Endian, I would need to add an offset for the different operand sizes, which would do things more bulky.

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:01 am

I say this a couple of hours after I told chase to remove me from the list of moderators, so this is just another user speaking.

What are you trying to do, break the record of meningless posts by a single user? This isn't your personal Blog, you know...

~ · Post by ~ » Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:25 am

Is that your opinion on every single post of mine? Sorry for it...

I'm posting things that I have figured out by myself, it would be amazing that the 100% of everybody else knows those things.

That's why I post in this subforum instead of the main ones, and have got some very useful answers from others.

Just like asking if Big Endian could be emulated using the Direction Flag in x86, but I think it wouldn't be very reliable.

In other words, I just look for some feedback, nobody is obligated to waste a second attending a post; I thought it could help speed up findings in diminute details from somebody who knows further useful facts.

To put it simple, personally I try to clear my mind while making my design and development job here, (I try to help out as much as I can when answers pop up) since I have got mad of doing such heavy job isolated.

Sorry...

ehird · Post by **ehird** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:29 am

Solar wrote: What are you trying to do, break the record of meningless posts by a single user? This isn't your personal Blog, you know...

I was starting to think that too, but, you know, maybe there was a reason behind it I thought..

~ · Post by ~ » Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:41 am

The reason? Maybe is that clearly I have severe knowledge deficiencies despite efforts to solve it, what can I do? Just trying to post more relevant things and gathering what's around to understand, but that's not possible past a real limit.

At least I make my best for not publishing true garbage posts with less than 1 line long, or worse, with 7 words or less...

By the way, I just plainly hate making blogs, they are surely a spread mainstream method to encourage people to build up piles of poorly organized stuff, for (what??????) maybe collect some information and use it without more personnel, or at the very least to scrutinize the general global interests.

Please try not to judge everything I post just because it is in the most general forum.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:57 am

Not to sound rude, But there is like 30 new topics from you every 6 minutes..

Each with a new "idea" of yours... or a question.. or simply a thread of you posting a summary of what you have learnt recently.

If you have a lot of informative to give... try helping out with the Wiki instead.

I don't have a problem with it I guess.. still a bit odd.

~ · Post by ~ » Sat Apr 07, 2007 9:11 am

Brynet-Inc wrote:Not to sound rude, But there is like 30 new topics from you every 6 minutes..

Hey, that's not so true, if that were so, only in this week I had accumulated thousands of posts.

Brynet-Inc wrote:Each with a new "idea" of yours... or a question.. or simply a thread of you posting a summary of what you have learnt recently.

Also, I could post only questions, but I don't think it would look good to see question after question, since that would make look it like a helpless situation of ignorance. When you debate with somebody, you frequently don't make them direct questions, but more likely affirmations. If they are nonimportant or (mostly) correct, the topic of discussion deviates, and if they are too incorrect or incomplete, then there's usually a direct reply. At least that's what I've been used to expect.

Brynet-Inc wrote:If you have a lot of informative to give... try helping out with the Wiki instead.

I don't have a problem with it I guess.. still a bit odd.

At least I get to see how things are (if I ask so many things it's because like many other I lack much knowledge like you have no idea, and refrain from asking things much more idiotical), with no doubt it will be useful and to make a good documentation and further work; I don't have problem either with what others might say. If it isn't starting threads mostly in a super general subforum it would be to reply something helpful in other threads, or it would be both helping the on-site wiki and an external repository of documents, or not sending at all...

Kevin McGuire · Post by **Kevin McGuire** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:00 am

Solar wrote:I say this a couple of hours after I told chase to remove me from the list of moderators, so this is just another user speaking.

What are you trying to do, break the record of meningless posts by a single user? This isn't your personal Blog, you know...

@Solar:
What are you planning to fill the time slot with anyway?

And as a suggestion. You need to make a alternate name and let chase put that as a moderator where you can just be a regular user as Solar.

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I thought the post was interesting since it was in general ramblings unlike the guy who asked about the typedef keyword in C under the development sub forum.