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  1. Path: sun001.spd.dsccc.com!spd!jmccarty
  2. From: jmccarty@spd.dsccc.com (Mike McCarty)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: Big and little endians
  5. Date: 23 Feb 1996 23:42:24 GMT
  6. Organization: DSC Communications Corporation, Plano, Texas USA
  7. Message-ID: <4gljd0$alc@sun001.spd.dsccc.com>
  8. References: <4fuuqq$fpp@due.unit.no> <Dn47AB.JAq@news.cern.ch>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: aplo139.spd.dsccc.com
  10.  
  11. In article <Dn47AB.JAq@news.cern.ch>,
  12. Maurizio Loreti <loreti@mxsld2.pd.infn.it> wrote:
  13. )In article <4fuuqq$fpp@due.unit.no>, Vidar Moe <vidarm@ibt.unit.no> writes:
  14. )>What exactly is meant by the terms little-endians and 
  15. )>big-endians?
  16. )>
  17. )>Vidar Moe.
  18. )
  19. )From the 'jargon file', prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/jarg320.txt.gz:
  20. )
  21. ):big-endian: adj.  [From Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" via
  22.  
  23. [stuff cut]
  24.  
  25. ):little-endian: adj.  Describes a computer architecture in
  26.  
  27. [stuff cut]
  28.  
  29. ):middle-endian: adj.  Not {big-endian} or
  30.  
  31. [stuff cut]
  32.  
  33. You forgot bi-endian, introduced with the Power PC.
  34.  
  35. Mike
  36. ----
  37. char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}
  38.  
  39. I don't speak for DSC.         <- They make me say that.
  40.