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Simon Wright wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> tonyg wrote on comp.lang.ada:
>> Ah cool, I guess I better go find out what little endian is, before
>> I eventually get a raspberry pi!
> 
> Unless you've been using a Powerbook you've probably been using
> little-endian all along. Rather like Monsieur Jourdain.

Actually the PowerPC is a bad example because, just like ARM and MIPS,
it supports both modes :) Good examples would be m68k and SPARC v8
which are big-endian only (v9 is big-endian too but can access memory
on little-endian buses like PCI).

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Ludovic Brenta.