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["Sam Sam" <s4m AT lycos.com>]

>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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>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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