[Tfug] Byte Order

Jim Secan jim at nwra.com
Thu Nov 16 08:09:24 MST 2006


At 09:00 PM 11/15/2006 -0700, Rich wrote:
>yep.
>
>You can be fairly certain the short will be 16 bits, but check with  
>sizeof(). In that case, Sparc goes in sequence 0 to 15, while x86  
>goes 8-to-15, then 0-to-7.

Yes, I'm working with 16 bit words, and what you describe is indeed what
I'm seeing.  Just need to flip the bytes around and be careful about sign
issues.

Thanks.
Jim
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