Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-22 Thread Steve Byrne
Dustin Lang writes: > > Hi, > > > Can someone help me clarify the following: > > > > Java is Big-Endian, correct? > > Intel Linux is Little-Endian, correct? > > Corrrect me if I'm wrong, but here's my understanding of the endianness: > 1. the java classes (such as DataInputStream) do

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Daniel W. Dulitz x108
> ---On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:54:02 -0700 (PDT), Jeffrey Radick said > > If a Java app exchanges data with data from a non-Java program > > then it must face platform-specific endianness issues. > > Does a program fail to be 100% Pure Java if it exchanges > > data with a non-Java program? (I'm ask

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, > > 3. as a result of (2) there is nothing a 100% java app can do to determine > > the endianness of the platform it's being run on. > If a Java app exchanges data with data from a non-Java program > then it must face platform-specific endianness issues. > Does a program fail to be 100% Pur

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Chris Hawks
orical reasons the data as a big stream of ints, floats, strings, etc all little-endian (except the strings, of course). So, I created an class to deal with the data input (snippet follows). Does this mean my app is not '100% java' ?? --re: Re: Big-Endians

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Jeffrey Radick
> ... > > Can someone help me clarify the following: > > > > Java is Big-Endian, correct? Yes, the language and JVM are defined this way. > > Intel Linux is Little-Endian, correct? Yes, this is a property of the CPU that Linux and all other OSes on Intel CPUs must live with. On other CPUs Lin

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Gerald de Jong
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Dustin Lang wrote: > > Can someone help me clarify the following: > > > > Java is Big-Endian, correct? > > Intel Linux is Little-Endian, correct? > > Corrrect me if I'm wrong, but here's my understanding of the endianness: > 1. the java classes (such as DataInputStream) do t

Re: Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread Dustin Lang
Hi, > Can someone help me clarify the following: > > Java is Big-Endian, correct? > Intel Linux is Little-Endian, correct? Corrrect me if I'm wrong, but here's my understanding of the endianness: 1. the java classes (such as DataInputStream) do things big-endianedly 2. the jvm is responsible f

Big-Endians

1999-04-21 Thread James Caple
What's up? Can someone help me clarify the following: Java is Big-Endian, correct? Intel Linux is Little-Endian, correct? Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?