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From: Alex Koshterek <havoc@lookanswer.com>
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To: Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Byte order?
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:47:47 +0200
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> This program gets it wrong. When the last byte of a long is set after the long was
> set to 1, we have a big endian architecture (the "little" end is at the 4th byte,
> so the "big end" is at the 1st byte).
> The x86 architecture _is_ little endian.
> 
What? 
on x86  long a =1
in memory is a  01 00 00 00
Lesser significant byte is first and most significant is last


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