From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6394e5e171f847d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-05 10:58:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!news.stealth.net!jfk3-feed1.news.digex.net!dca6-feed2.news.digex.net!intermedia!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.tampabay.rr.com!news-west.rr.com!lsnws01.we.mediaone.net!typhoon.san.rr.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B9667B7.72FFBD2B@san.rr.com> From: Darren New Organization: Boxes! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OS Kernel features References: <9n4euv$t9m$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net> <3B964C7A.BC04374E@icn.siemens.de> <9n5o9n$37a$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 17:58:17 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.165.20.19 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.san.rr.com 999712697 24.165.20.19 (Wed, 05 Sep 2001 10:58:17 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 10:58:17 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12763 Date: 2001-09-05T17:58:17+00:00 List-Id: 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.