Re: Byte Addressability And Beyond

John Savard wrote:

On Wed, 1 May 2024 23:17:06 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
 

Plus, if you load a single precision float into a floating-point
register, you are loading on the left side, not the right side, so the

In My 66000, floats are stored on the right side of the register
{mostly because I do not have FP LD/STs.}

inconsistency to which you're referring now impacts the little-endian
machines. (Of course, though, that's no longer quite true with IEEE
754, since the exponent isn't the same size for all precisions, the
way it was with old-fashioned machines.)

John Savard