Re: little endian & big endian

[Timothy Murphy]

On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 06:00:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 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.

Couldn't one write an int to a file,
and then read it as a character array?
[Just a slightly random thought.]

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