From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 20 8: 3:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ada.snu.ac.kr (ada.snu.ac.kr [147.46.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3AE37B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:03:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sasung@localhost) by ada.snu.ac.kr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAKG1TC88958; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 01:01:29 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from sasung) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 01:01:29 +0900 From: Kim Deokhwan To: Alex Koshterek Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Byte order? Message-ID: <20001121010129.A88925@ada.snu.ac.kr> Reply-To: sasung@atropos.snu.ac.kr References: <00112017175200.47740@pro.lookanswer.com> <20001120164006.A1624@crow.dom2ip.de> <00112017513301.47740@pro.lookanswer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00112017513301.47740@pro.lookanswer.com>; from havoc@lookanswer.com on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:47:47PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:47:47PM +0200, Alex Koshterek wrote: > > 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 That's the very little-endian. http://www.whatis.com/WhatIs_Definition_Page/0,4152,211659,00.html -- Kim Deokhwan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message