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Re: Endian[n]ess, language-specific problems and help with egcs.
- To: ian at cygnus dot com, smith at vaj5184 dot tu dot hac dot com
- Subject: Re: Endian[n]ess, language-specific problems and help with egcs.
- From: N8TM at aol dot com
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 09:04:50 EDT
- Cc: toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl, egcs at cygnus dot com
In a message dated 8/19/98 1:44:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ian@cygnus.com
writes:
> VAX seemed to use neither BE
> ('1234') or LE ('4321'), but instead '2143' or something
> like that. Is that right?
>
> No. The Vax is always little endian.
VAX (and even current sgi-mips chips) use that order for floating point.
Irix, however, writes BE data files.