On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:47:47PM +0200, Alex Koshterek wrote:
> > 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
Exactly - the least significant byte comes first, the number is stored
in memory from its 'little' end towards its 'big' end - hence, little-endian.
G'luck,
Peter
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