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The C23 edition of Modern C

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515 points bwidlar | 4 comments | 15 Oct 24 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.671s | source
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eqvinox ◴[16 Oct 24 12:54 UTC] No.41858531[source]▶
> The storage order, the endianness, as given for my machine, is called little-endian. A system that has high-order representation digits first is called big-endian. Both orders are commonly used by modern processor types. Some processors are even able to switch between the two orders on the fly.

Calling big endian "commonly used by modern processor types" when s390x is really the only one left is a bit of a stretch ;D

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1. ondra ◴[16 Oct 24 13:06 UTC] No.41858643[source]▶
MIPS is still quite alive in consumer networking hardware.
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2. eqvinox ◴[16 Oct 24 13:22 UTC] No.41858768[source]▶
True - but at the same time, about half¹ of it is mipsel, i.e. in little-endian mode :). It's also in decline, AFAICS there is very little new silicon development.

¹ on the OpenWRT table of hardware

3. tonetegeatinst ◴[16 Oct 24 15:59 UTC] No.41860666[source]▶
Learning MIPS assembly currently using mars and QtSpim.

Any recommended hardware I should use for bare metal development messing around? Hopefully priced like a SBC like the raspberry pi.

Want to move from making basic programs like adding, messing with functions, etc and bring my MIPS assembly up to a real hardware environment.

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4. AntoniusBlock ◴[16 Oct 24 19:44 UTC] No.41863062[source]▶
Many routers use the MIPS ISA and they can be rooted to get shell access. That's what I did with an old Netgear router, which was like a very low spec SBC. If you have a PS2 lying around, you could try that.