пн , 20 ноя 2000, Peter Pentchev написал:
> 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.
>
Thanks. We all mean same thing, but I called it incorrectly ;-)
I`m stupid
Sorry and thanks.
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