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[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

Sam Sam writes:
 > Hi Guys & Girls,
 > 
 > sorry if it's kinda stupid question, I subscribe to this mailing list 
 > since 1 years ago, and I always hear about Bigendian problem, what is 
 > Bigendian anyways ?? 
 > any 'clear' explanation would be very grateful

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.

Michael
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