[tz] "Standard byte order"

Thom Hehl Thom at pointsix.com
Fri Nov 4 15:16:18 UTC 2011


Absolutely. So let's say that in the docs.

-----Original Message-----
From: Yann Droneaud [mailto:yann at droneaud.fr] 
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:16 AM
To: Thom Hehl
Cc: tz at iana.org
Subject: Re: [tz] "Standard byte order"

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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