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Subject:	Re: is there any little-endian and big-endian issue with cygwin?
Date:	Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:17:33 -0800
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Tim Beuman wrote:

> Java uses big-endian while Windows/DOS (and cygwin) uses little-endian.

[OT] False.  Java only uses big-endian for external representation of 
integers. In memory, integers follow the native layout of whatever 
architecture it's running on.


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