[comp.arch] Debugging amidst the endian wars.

throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop) (01/18/89)

Does anybody have suggestions or references on how to deal with a
debugger distributed across heterogeneous (with respect to endianness)
hosts?  Is the convert-sex operation always its own inverse?  Examples
of literature on such cross-or-districuted debuggers would be most
welcome.  (Simply mandating that conversion of all integer information
to a common format occur is easy to say, but what I'm after is the
analysis of how debuggers can reliably know when users are reaching
after integer information or not.)

Any ideas?

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