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From: | "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk> |
To: | DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu |
Date: | Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:36:34 GMT |
Subject: | Re: GRXlib question |
Hartmut Schirmer <hsc AT techfak DOT uni-kiel DOT d400 DOT de> wrote:- > It looks like you just swapped the high and low byte. With Intel x86 series > processors, the memory representation of a multi-byte variable looks like > base+0 .... base+n > low .... high byte This order of the bytes of a multi-byte value is called "little-endian". The opposite order (as in old mainframes and in ordinary printer numbers on paper) is called "big-endian".
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