Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:01:39 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Yoav Shadmi <yoav AT nettaxi DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: order of bytes written to files...
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Yoav Shadmi wrote:

> 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.

If I understand correctly the original message, the order of bytes in the 
COFF binaries themselves has nothing to do with the problem.  The 
original message described a program which, when compiled with Borland 
and DJGPP produced different results writing integer values to a binary 
file.  The format of the executable file has nothing to do with that.