BIG ENDIAN or LITTLE ENDIAN

[David A. Gatwood]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Michael Norton wrote:

> I am working on some code that is particuliar of byte ordering. Is the
> G4, running PPC 2000 a BIG_ENDIAN machine?

All PowerPC machines running Linux are big-endian, by nature.  There's a
little-endian hack... err... mode in the processor, but I'm not aware of
any OS that uses it except possibly the ill-fated Windows NT port that was
never released....  :-/


David

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