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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