From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 20 8: 5: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from moffetimages.com (unknown [207.251.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A818C37B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:05:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brianm@localhost) by moffetimages.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA62551; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:14:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brianm) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:14:16 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian D. Moffet" Message-Id: <200011201614.IAA62551@moffetimages.com> To: havoc@lookanswer.com Subject: Re: Byte order? Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <00112017513301.47740@pro.lookanswer.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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