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- From: c4ab1@dmu.ac.uk (Andrew Buckby)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: big endian, little endian
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 09:08:32 GMT
- Organization: De Montfort University, Leicester
- Message-ID: <4l2ceg$ill@macondo.dmu.ac.uk>
- References: <4ku9dm$t1t@news.ycc.yale.edu> <829609443snz@willen.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <829609443snz@willen.demon.co.uk>, Adrian Parker
- <adrian@willen.demon.co.uk> writes:
- > In article <4ku9dm$t1t@news.ycc.yale.edu>
- > rmurphy@minerva.cis.yale.edu "rmurphy" writes:
- >
- > > Hi. I'm a graduate student doing research in computer music, and i
- > > have a small tech question I can't seem to get answered in the c
- > > reference books. What is the difference between big-endian and
- > > little-endian? I know it relates somehow to signed/unsigned integers,
- > > and the division between ibm & 68k-based platforms, but have no clue
- > > beyond that. Thanks.
- > > rmurphy@minerva.cis.yale.edu
- >
- It the way inwhich number are stored in bytes. I may be wrong but I think that
- Intel stores the highest bit on the right and the lowest on the left, 68000 and
- most UNIX machines store it the other way with the highest bit on the left.
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- intel 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 others 1 2 4 8 16 32 64
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