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RE: REAL meaning of little-endian and big-endian?
- From: Doug Fraser <dfraser at photuris dot com>
- To: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:49:13 -0500
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] REAL meaning of little-endian and big-endian?
Having the MSB on PPC be bit 0 is an IBM thing.
On every other Motorola processor, bit 0 is the LSB.
It is a carry over from the original IBM Power architecture.
Douglas Fraser
dfraser@photuris.com
732 465 1000 x1231
Photuris, Inc.
20 Corporate Place South
Piscataway, NJ 08854
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergei Organov [mailto:osv@javad.ru]
>
> Motorola PowerPC manuals call most significant bit 'bit 0' ;-)
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