Re: [Openocd-development] MIPS target, big endian host

[Øyvind H. <oyv...@zy...>]

I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding about JTAG
and OpenOCD.

Let me try to clarify:

JTAG clocks in and out bits, not bytes, so the concept of
"big/small-endian" does not enter the picture at the JTAG level.

OpenOCD stores the bits clocked in/out as a series of words
which happen to be one byte long.

The confusion starts when a series of one byte words and little endian
representations are identical.

Really OpenOCD could have stored the bits as a series of
words larger than bytes in the host representation to be more
efficient.

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