From: Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Ada OS Kernel features
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 17:58:17 GMT
Date: 2001-09-05T17:58:17+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B9667B7.72FFBD2B@san.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9n5o9n$37a$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net
Brian Catlin wrote:
> I don't want to start a flame war, or get too far off topic, but big-endian just
> doesn't make sense (at least compared to little-endian). In little-endian, you
> count your bits and bytes from right to left, all the way to infinity. In
> big-endian, what purpose does swapping the bytes around have?
There's no "left" and "right" in bits. That's an artifact of how you
write things. If your normal english text was written right to left
(like arabic) the whole discussion would never have started. :-)
It's also an artifact of writing stuff from top to bottom. Do you number
a hex dump with the lower addresses lower on the page? If you do, you
discover that "endian" issues are completely different, all of a sudden.
--
Darren New
San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand.
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-05 5:58 Ada OS Kernel features Brian Catlin
2001-09-05 10:15 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-09-05 11:16 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-05 17:06 ` Brian Catlin
2001-09-06 14:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-09-07 9:31 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-09-05 17:55 ` David Starner
2001-09-05 18:42 ` Darren New
2001-09-12 6:47 ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-09-05 14:04 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-05 17:23 ` Brian Catlin
2001-09-05 20:17 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-05 21:10 ` Brian Catlin
2001-09-06 6:45 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-09-06 6:56 ` Brian Catlin
2001-09-06 14:05 ` Ted Dennison
2001-09-05 16:02 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-09-05 16:19 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2001-09-05 17:58 ` Brian Catlin
2001-09-05 17:44 ` Brian Catlin
2001-09-05 17:58 ` Darren New [this message]
2001-09-05 18:51 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-05 19:25 ` chris.danx
2001-09-05 20:07 ` Darren New
2001-09-05 20:14 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-06 13:45 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-09-06 18:06 ` chris.danx
2001-09-06 19:41 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-06 22:32 ` chris.danx
2001-09-07 11:04 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-09-07 8:04 ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-09-07 8:18 ` Mattias Svensson
2001-09-07 12:40 ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-09-12 7:12 ` Mats Karlssohn
2001-09-05 20:18 ` Brian Catlin
2001-09-06 6:48 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2001-09-06 6:59 ` Brian Catlin
2001-09-10 7:32 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2001-09-06 13:42 ` Alfred Hilscher
2001-09-07 8:13 ` Dmitry Kazakov
2001-09-08 3:55 ` Kenneth Almquist
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