Re: Byte order?

[Alex Koshterek]

> This program gets it wrong. When the last byte of a long is set after the long was
> set to 1, we have a big endian architecture (the "little" end is at the 4th byte,
> so the "big end" is at the 1st byte).
> The x86 architecture _is_ little endian.
> 
What? 
on x86  long a =1
in memory is a  01 00 00 00
Lesser significant byte is first and most significant is last


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