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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:15:25
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Dixon <p DOT dixon AT ic DOT ac DOT uk>
Subject: Re: Why does sizeof give me...
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>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.
Wrong - I have seen (though I cannot remember which cpu families) byte
orders in a 32 bit integer of

1 2 3 4	(little-endian)
4 3 2 1 (big endian)
2 1 4 3 (_neither_)

and I wouldnt be surprised if somewhere out there some of the other
possible orderings existed!