Le ven 21/03/2003 à 14:23, Götz Waschk a écrit : > Am Freitag, 21. März 2003, 12:52:23 Uhr MET, schrieb Adam Williamson: > > Aha! The perfect time to pounce and ask someone who knows: what the hell > > *are* little-endian and big-endian?! I tried Googling it, really I did, > > but all I got were references to Gulliver's Travels. Not terribly > > helpful. > > If you're not a coder you don't need to know this, but I try to make > it simple: > > The difference between little-endian and big-endian processors is how > they store integer numbers bigger than one byte. If you store a 16 bit > number you have two options on how to store the two bytes: > 1. store the lower part first, that's means store the lower part of > the number at the lower memory address and the higher part at the next > memory address. This is called little endian. > 2. the other way around, that's big-endian. > > It's the same for bigger number formats, like 32 or 64 bits.
So little endian is reading the number like japanese or arabic-reading people, and big endian like 'traditional' western people ?? Stef *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* Linux 2.4.19-24mdk #1 Thu Jan 30 13:13:07 MST 2003 2:00pm up 13 days, 23:56, 2 users, load average: 1.49, 1.50, 1.40
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