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Date:      Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:09:07 +0100
From:      "Wouter Oosterveld" <wouter@fizzyflux.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Endianness of freeBSD
Message-ID:  <b4950de90802040409v52d18c48xdf57b8741e35834d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1563a4fd0802040403x2b71eaa1yd3d8f78e7742843b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1563a4fd0802040403x2b71eaa1yd3d8f78e7742843b@mail.gmail.com>

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Endianness depends on the hardware.

In internal kernel structures endianness does not matter, if
communicating with other machines protocols (usually) define a
bitorder.

The c-library and/or systemlibrary contains utility functions for conversion.

Regards,

Wouter Oosterveld

2008/2/4, navneet Upadhyay <navneet.upadhyay@gmail.com>:
> 1. Is FreeBSD little Endian like windows?
>
> 2. Linux is Big endian?
>
> wrote a code int i = 1;    if((i >> 1) == 0) little else big
> got little on all platforms bsd,linux,windows.
>
> *Does endianness depends on OS or the hardware?*
> **
> **
> *Thanks,*
> *navneet*
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