[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Nandor) wrote:
>Well, I should add that $Config{byteorder} is pretty arbitrary, as it can
>be changed after the build, and it really only affects N and V packs.
I thought N and V were unaffected by any machine-specific stuff, and the
S, I, & L packs were the machine-specific stuff.
>However, I should also add that on MacPerl, I get the same result as above.
>I also know that Macs are big-endian. So my guess is that the output does
>not indicate what someone thinks it indicates.
Aha - `perldoc -f pack` is wrong in perl 5.6.0, I see that it's been
fixed in 5.6.1.
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