On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, RW wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:38:44 -0400
Joseph Brennan wrote:
This is a nice test I found:
echo -n I | od -to2 | awk '{ print substr($2,6,1); exit}'
1 little-endian
0 big-endian
I don't see how this can output anything other than 1.
Endianness is about the addressing of bytes within integer words. This
is looking at the ordering of human-readable octal digits displaying
the contents of a single byte.
On big-endian system:
$ echo -n I | od -to2
0000000 044400
0000001
On little-endian system:
# echo -n I | od -to2
0000000 000111
0000001
So it works.
It's a single data byte but since the display field is a two byte
object, where within that two byte object does that single byte show up?
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