On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 06:45:39PM +1000, David Fisher wrote:
>
> Would some kind soul mind explaining what this Endian business is all about?
> I have seen frequent references to it on this list but not elsewhere.
>
> I was not hitherto aware that Jonathan Swift was a Linux user, nor can I find
> any other reference to Unix in "Gulliver's Travels".
just since no-one else has mentioned it, <endian.h> actually lists
_three_ byte orders:
/* Definitions for byte order, according to significance of bytes, from low
addresses to high addresses. The value is what you get by putting '4'
in the most significant byte, '3' in the second most significant byte,
'2' in the second least significant byte, and '1' in the least
significant byte. */
#define __LITTLE_ENDIAN 1234
#define __BIG_ENDIAN 4321
#define __PDP_ENDIAN 3412
--
- Gus
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