[tz] "Standard byte order"

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Fri Nov 4 16:31:05 UTC 2011


On 2011/11/04 04:23 PM, Ian Abbott wrote:
> Okay, the high-order byte is written first, but it doesn't say anything
> about the ordering of the remaining bytes of the four- or eight-byte
> values.  (PDP-endian, anybody?) ;-)

Except that PDP-endian wouldn't have the high-order byte first, it would
have one of the middle bytes (bits 23..16 for a four-byte value) first.

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