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Re: is there any little-endian and big-endian issue with cygwin?


Tim Beuman wrote:

Java uses big-endian while Windows/DOS (and cygwin) uses little-endian.

[OT] False. Java only uses big-endian for external representation of integers. In memory, integers follow the native layout of whatever architecture it's running on.



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