Re: DRAFT RFC: Enhanced Pack/Unpack

[Bart Lateur]

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:52:09 -0400, John Porter wrote:

>Right, VAX is strictly little-endian.
>I.e. the address of a *word is the address of its least significant byte. 
>(That's little-endian, isn't it?)

Right. Why you people don't call it "Intel" vs. "Motorola", like the
rest of the civilised world, I don't know.  ;-)  See the TIFF spec, for
example.

Er, in case you were in any doubt: Motorola (from the 68k processors) is
BigEndian, Intel (x86) is LittleEndian. TIFF marks the files with either
"MM" or "II".

Sorry for the sidetracking. But IMO, it's not necessary for everybody to
go and look this up independently.

-- 
        Bart.