Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2008 May 13, at 17:12, Andrew Coppin wrote:
[Oh GOD I hope I didn't just start a Holy War...]
Er, I'd say it's already well in progress. :/
Oh dear.
Appologies to everybody who doesn't actually _care_ about which endian
mode their computer uses...
On 2008-05-12, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Stupid little-endian nonsense... mutter mutter...)
I used to be a big-endian advocate, on the principle that it doesn't
really matter, and it was standard network byte order. Now I'm
convinced that little endian is the way to go, as bit
Aaron Denney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I used to be a big-endian advocate, on the principle that it doesn't
really matter, and it was standard network byte order. Now I'm
convinced that little endian is the way to go
I guess it depends a lot on what you grew up with. The names
(little/big
On Tue 2008-05-13 20:46, Ketil Malde wrote:
Aaron Denney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I guess it depends a lot on what you grew up with. The names
(little/big endian) are incredibly apt.
The only argument I can come up with, is that big endian seems to make
more sense for 'od':
% echo
Jed Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This, of course, is because `od -x' regards the input as 16-bit integers. We
can get saner output if we regard it is 8-bit integers.
Yes, of course. The point was that for big-endian, the word size
won't matter. Little-endian words will be reversed with
Aaron Denney wrote:
On 2008-05-12, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Stupid little-endian nonsense... mutter mutter...)
I used to be a big-endian advocate, on the principle that it doesn't
really matter, and it was standard network byte order. Now I'm
convinced that little
Also, the way we write numbers is little endian when writing in
Arabic; we just forgot to reverse the digits when we borrowed the
notation.
Little endian is more logical unless you also number your bits with
MSB as bit 0.
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Aaron Denney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
On 2008 May 13, at 17:12, Andrew Coppin wrote:
[Oh GOD I hope I didn't just start a Holy War...]
Er, I'd say it's already well in progress. :/
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