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Article #12560Re: A theory for Big & Little Endian's origin
From: peter da silva
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:03
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:03
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In article <1993Jan11.192019.2922@lsl.co.uk> snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
> Little endian sucks if you're an assembly freak (such as I was for many years)
> an you look at memory dumps for multi-byte values like addresses, the nibbles
> are all in the wrong order:-
> Big Endian : $1234
> Little Endian : $3412
So print your dumps backwards. DEC's VAX macro-assembler does something
like this:
HEX ADDR CODE
7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
1234 00EC 0100 INSTR #1234
90 0104 INSTR
Just a DEC hardware junkie.
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Peter da Silva `-_-'
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