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  • From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>
  • To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: BIGENDIAN
  • Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:05:59 -0700


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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