Re: little endian & big endian

[mlorton]

> I now have two different opinions. Some say Java is big-endian, some
> say it depends which machine it's on. Who's right? Proofs, please.

Class files and serialized objects are MSB.  The endianness of the VM
itself is implementation dependent; however, if you could devise a
pure-Java program that could detect the endianness of the VM, you
would have found a bug in the spec.

M.