Ok ok, I see: big endian: the big END is stored at the BEGINNING little endian: the little END is stored at the BEGINNING
Strange for me. I prefer the terms "normal" vs. "Intel" format :-) Regards Bernd ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Subject: Re: big and little endian Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 18:22:51 +0200 From: Bernd Oppolzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What I never understood about this: how can big ENDian be explained ? Because, the number formats called big ENDian have the LEAST significant byte at the END, and the little ENDians have the MOST significant byte at the END. Can anybody explain ? Regards Bernd Am Mit, 06 Aug 2003 schrieben Sie: > Has to do with the order of bytes and significance. Whether, for > example, decimal 123456789 which is hex 0x75BCD15 is stored as 07 5B CD > 15 (big endian) or 15 CD 5B 07 (little endian). Intel is little endian. > > ~ Daniel > -------------------------------------------------------
