Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/14/13:30:02
Endlisnis wrote:
>
> > (sorry... have to say it) They aren't endians, they're native
> > arrangements. Please, be PC with your PC. <grin>
>
> I don't know what you are talking about. The word endian means the native
> order of bytes in a multibyte contiguous variable type.
<shakes head> It was a PUN, a PUN. endian is approximately equal to
Indian... native arrangement/american. <sigh>
Does no one appreciate horrible geek humor anymore?
> I don't see how, because it's doing the exact same thing in a more obsure way.
> I was trying to say that if the file was stored on a big-endian machine, then using
> a little-endian like DJGPP to read the file in the way I mentioned wouldn't work.
The difference is that you're telling the compiler to do the magic
here, so if you compiled it on a big-endian compiler, then it should
do it right. I'm just trying to save some time spent recoding.
Chris
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