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Subject: Re: Endianness of freeBSD
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> 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?*

on hardware