From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 20 8:15:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pro.lookanswer.com (unknown [195.66.202.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B25C637B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 08:15:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 53053 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Nov 2000 16:14:56 -0000 From: Alex Koshterek Reply-To: havoc@lookanswer.com To: Peter Pentchev Subject: Re: Byte order? Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:12:48 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Thomas Moestl , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00112017175200.47740@pro.lookanswer.com> <00112017513301.47740@pro.lookanswer.com> <20001120175839.B6292@ringworld.oblivion.bg> In-Reply-To: <20001120175839.B6292@ringworld.oblivion.bg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00112018145502.47740@pro.lookanswer.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG пн , 20 ноя 2000, Peter Pentchev написал: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:47:47PM +0200, Alex Koshterek wrote: > > > 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 > > Exactly - the least significant byte comes first, the number is stored > in memory from its 'little' end towards its 'big' end - hence, little-endian. > Thanks. We all mean same thing, but I called it incorrectly ;-) I`m stupid Sorry and thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message