Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:00:58 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Why does sizeof give me...
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On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Erik Max Francis wrote:

..
> > variables up into chars or in ASCII.  Especially since you can't rely
> > on any byte ordering scheme (I gather there are some machines where a
> > long is held in memory as bytes 2, 1, 4 and 3 or something similar, not
> > even a reversible format).
> 
> I don't know offhand, but my understanding is that ANSI C doesn't make any
> determination of the internal respresentation of the bytes in a multi-byte
> integral type (short, int, long).  I imagine that there aren't any such
> arbitrary architectures that aren't either little- or big-endian.

There are such architectures. If not I'm mistaken the original Cray
machines used such an arrangement (non-little/non-big).

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