Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:14:16 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian D. Moffet" <brianm@moffetimages.com> To: havoc@lookanswer.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Byte order? Message-ID: <200011201614.IAA62551@moffetimages.com> In-Reply-To: <00112017513301.47740@pro.lookanswer.com>
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per the Intel Pentium Processor Users Manual, section 1.3.1 "The Pentium processor is a "little endian" machine." The program in question has the algorithm incorrect, a long in little endian would look like: 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00 the least significant byte comes first in the memory space. Brian Moffet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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