Endian[n]ess, language-specific problems and help with egcs.

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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.