Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 15:59:50 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: perfecto AT mail2 DOT nai DOT net
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: order of bytes written to files...
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 perfecto AT mail2 DOT nai DOT net wrote:

> >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?

Because the format of the executable file is one thing, but the effect of 
the machine instructions recorded inside that executable file is 
something entirely different.