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From: mictali AT netcom DOT com (Jere McDevitt)
Subject: Byte Order
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 20:55:31 GMT
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This may be covered in the manuals or the FAQ but I can't find it.  Any
direction as to where to look will be greatly appreciated.

Simply put, I have a program that uses a structure with a LONG variable.  I
set the variable to a value in a DJGPP compiled application and write the
structure to a file.  When I read the same structure back in using a Dos
application (16 bit ) compiled with Borlandc 3.1 (variable sizes match -
used short not int) then the byte order of the LONG variable is reversed. 
What was written out as 0x00000084 comes in as 0x84000000.  

I saw in the gcc manual something about xm-machine.h, machine.h and define
for ?BIG_ENDIAN?, only I can't find out how to make use of this information.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Jere (mictali AT netcom DOT com)