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Re: Big and little endian issues
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- Subject: Re: Big and little endian issues
- From: David Cary <d.cary@ieee.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 15:11:33 -0500
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I put online some of the gems of wisdom I've found dealing with big-endian
and little-endian issues:
http://www.ionet.net/~caryd_osu/david/html/endian_faq.html
.
The vast bulk of it came from the PCI mailing list.
Thanks everyone !
(If anyone sends me the twisted details of their particular OS /
communications interface, I'd be glad to add it to the FAQ. It already says
that all Intel x86 CPUs and the OSes that run on them are little-endian. I
would like list the endian details of OSes that run on bi-endian CPUs like
the PowerPC. It already says that RS-232 transmits the LSB first -- i.e.,
it is little-endian. I would like to list the endian-ness of other
interfaces such as Fire-Wire, USB, SCI, ACCESS.bus, etc.
)
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