On 02 Nov 2010, at 12:41, Bo Berglund wrote: > The end to me is the last (the right-most) byte. And that is the LSB. > So the end is LSB, the little part...
"Little endian" means "the little end comes first" (with "the little end" referring to the least significant byte). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Etymology for the origins of the term. > And what happens when the memory itself holds 32 bits (or more) in > each address? Then everything is stuffed into the same single address > and the above example will fail... Endianess is defined in terms of byte-addressable memory. Software running on such an architecture would have to emulate the behaviour of a little or big endian byte-addressable architecture when exchanging data with the outside world. Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
