Endianess

[N8TM@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/13/98 1:22:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
mikeg@watson.ibm.com writes:

> it's an architecture, not a compiler issue
No, not entirely, as others mentioned already, certain compiler/library
systems swap bytes by default so that the files work across architectures.
Thus my possibly too loose generalization that many Unix machines use big-
endian data files regardless of their internal byte order.