On 2/17/2012 8:00 PM, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
I've checked in this patch to consistently hyphenate "big-endian" and "little-endian" when used as adjectives. I observe that Jonathan Swift also hyphenated "Big-endians" when used as a noun in Gulliver's Travels, but I did not see any uses of either term as a noun in invoke.texi, so thankfully I did not have to deal with that case. ;-)
I can't see any legitimate case of the terms referring to bit ordering being nouns, they are always adjectives. In Swift, when it is used as a noun, it refers to the followers, and that just doesn't apply to the computer use. Odd note of interest, the project to build a big-endian version of Windows was called Hiawatha (= big indian) :-)
