On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:52:23PM +0000, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 08:20, G�tz Waschk wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 20. M�rz 2003, 20:49:04 Uhr MET, schrieb Michael Scherer: > > > According to the INSTALL file, it runs only on big endian system. > > > Since the package is not in debian ( last time I checked, one or two month > > > ago ), I was unable to know where it work and where it don't. > > > And, I forget to search if sparc and other are big endian or not. > > > > > I think that power pc are not big endian processor ( not sure ), and > > > since ppc is one of the two mdk architecture, I think the tag is > > > mandatory. > > > > Hi, > > > > you've mixed this up: intel and alpha are little-endian, while sparc > > and ppc are big-endian. > > Aha! The perfect time to pounce and ask someone who knows: what the hell > *are* little-endian and big-endian?! I tried Googling it, really I did, > but all I got were references to Gulliver's Travels. Not terribly > helpful.
http://www.cs.umass.edu/~verts/cs32/endian.html -- Murray J. Root
