> I keep seeing references to big endian and little endian. I am going to > show off my ignorance here and ask - What does this mean? I do not know > what the term endian means.
endian refers to the order of the bytes in words/half words/etc.. For 32 bits var, the value "0x12345678" will be actually stored in memory like this : - 12345678 on big endian systems - 78563412 on little endian systems "big" means that the most significant bits come first... -- Guillaume Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IBM Poughkeepsie SAK Kernel Development
