BIGENDIAN
Sam Sam
s4m at lycos.com
Wed Jul 11 16:22:54 EDT 2001
>It refers to the order in which the computer stores the most significant
>byte of a multibyte data type (if you're a programmer think of word, longint
>etc). The most significant byte is either at the big end or the little end.
>Intel machines are little-endian, Suns and PPC machines are big->endian.
hmmm...
ok.. I got a little bit clearer..
is 11 in intel 0x01010000 ??
is 11 in sun 0x00000101 ??
if that right I think I got an explanation by that.. =))
cheers,
Sam
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