Big Endian is also known as network order in some contexts, but the network order usage does seem to include a term for "non-network order".
Rick On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:06 AM, René Jansen <rvjan...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > 2) Also not sure I like the "architecture" name, since this is not > really a hardware architecture. > > Address size? > Another possibility is memory model, there could be different operand > sizes than address sizes, like some JVMs do. > > > > > 3) An actual hardware architecture one might be nice...not sure I want > to get into the issue of defining what is returned for that at this time. > This can easily be added later. > > It would be great if this could just match what the OS reports to us, like > in uname -a. Windows must have a call for that also. > > > 4) Do we need some sort of byte-order indicator (i.e., endian-ness). > Not sure what values we're return for that. > > I think Big Endian or Little Endian, alternatively. MSB-first or LSB-first > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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