BIGENDIAN
Sam Sam
s4m at lycos.com
Wed Jul 11 16:18:08 EDT 2001
>It's the byte order for integers.
>
>Intel is little endian, meaning that binary 1 is represented as
>0x01000000 for a 32 bit int, while Sun Sparc is big endian, so 1 is
>represented as 0x00000001.
>
isn't 0x01000000 means 2^6=64 while 0x00000001 means 2^0=1 ??
CMIIW please... why intel use 0x01000000 as representation of 1 ??
cheers,
Sam
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