From:	perfecto AT mail2 DOT nai DOT net (Perry DOT Fecteau AT Republican DOT COM)
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Subject:	Re: order of bytes written to files...
Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 1998 20:49:40 GMT
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:01:39 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:


>On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Yoav Shadmi wrote:

>> If I'm not mistaken the COFF binaries (produced by DjGPP) have
>> big-endian byte ordering (i.e. the most significant byte/word comes 
>> first) in them, while most x86 binaries (Like those produced by Borland 
>> C) use the little-endian ordering.

>If I understand correctly the original message, the order of bytes in the 
>COFF binaries themselves has nothing to do with the problem.  The 
>original message described a program which, when compiled with Borland 
>and DJGPP produced different results writing integer values to a binary 
>file.  The format of the executable file has nothing to do with that.

why wouldn't it?
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