From: Yoav Shadmi <yoav AT nettaxi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: order of bytes written to files...
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:41:08 +0200
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Matthias Ho Chui Shiong wrote:
> 
> Hi, i am matthias. I have a problem.
> 
>    when i write the long value 49478 to a binary file using borland as
> the compiler, the hexa
>    content of the file turn out to be 46 C1 00 00 which is out I want.
> 
>    However when I compile the same program under RHIDE with only
> compiler option -m486, the
>    result written to the binary file is 00 00 46 C1.
> 
>    Can someone one plse advise me on this.
> 
>    Thank you very much.

If I'm not mistaken the COFF binaries (produced by DjGPP) have
big-endian
byte ordering (i.e. the most significant byte/word comes first) in them,
while 
most x86 binaries (Like those produced by Borland C) use the
little-endian
ordering.

Yoav