[tz] "Standard byte order"

Yann Droneaud yann at droneaud.fr
Fri Nov 4 15:15:35 UTC 2011


Le vendredi 04 novembre 2011 à 10:27 -0400, Thom Hehl a écrit :
> I’m assuming that “Standard byte order” referred to over and over in
> the docs means Most Significant Byte first?
> 
>  
> 
> It should really be documented that way. As far as I know, there is no
> standard byte order.
> 

But there is a "Network Byte Order" which is Big Endian (Most
Significant Byte)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Endianness_in_networking

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Yann Droneaud






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