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RE: [SLUG] Endian-ness.

To: "Sydney Linux Users Group" <slug@nospam.slug.org.au>
Subject: RE: [SLUG] Endian-ness.
From: "Aravind Naidu" <aravind.naidu@nospam.software-assoc.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:20:14 +1000
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> RFC1208 says:
>
> big-endian: A format for storage or transmission of binary data in
> which the most significant bit (or byte) comes first.  The reverse
> convention is called little-endian.
>
> Normally people think of computer architectures when endianess is
> mentioned, but the definition above indicates it is a wider concept.
> E.g. for machines x86 is little-endian; 68k and Sparc are big endian.
> Programmers of network software have to aware of the issues.
>

But, if for example you are programming in Java, you don't have to worry
about it. Java is big-endian on all machines, x86 to PowerPC to the 390's.

-- Aravind

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- Re: [SLUG] Endian-ness.
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