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Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars

From "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars
Date 2017-11-27 09:26 +0100
Organization Informatimago
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Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> writes:

>> >   3, 2, 1, 0, 24, 25, 26  (little-endian machine)
>> >   0, 1, 2, 3, 24, 25, 26  (big-endian machine)
>
> Do you know that the only possibilities are little-endian and big-endian ?

You mean that little-endian and big-endian are NOT the only
possibilities?


In practice there are (old) processors where you'd have:

      1, 0, 3, 2, 24, 25, 26
   


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__Pascal J. Bourguignon
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Recasting data as long ints and chars James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2017-11-19 21:11 +0000
  Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-23 00:50 +0000
    Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2017-11-26 15:55 +0000
      Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-26 23:55 +0000
        Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2017-11-27 06:43 +0000
          Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2017-11-27 09:26 +0100
            Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2017-11-27 08:50 +0000
            Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-11-27 10:35 -0500
              Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-11-27 08:00 -0800
              Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2017-11-27 23:49 +0100
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2017-11-27 15:56 -0800
            Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2017-12-15 12:45 -0800
          Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-27 15:08 +0000
        Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2017-11-27 14:55 +0000
          Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-27 15:51 +0000
            Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2017-11-28 17:13 +0000
              Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-29 01:07 +0000
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 18:59 +0000
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-30 00:53 +0000
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-11-29 17:01 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-30 11:40 +0000
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2017-11-30 19:53 +0000
              Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 18:37 +0000
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2017-11-30 22:38 +0000
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2017-12-07 05:06 +0000
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-12-07 07:51 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2017-12-08 23:14 +0000
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-12-12 16:19 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-12-12 17:10 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-12-13 09:02 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2017-12-15 12:39 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-12-15 17:39 -0600
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2017-12-15 15:52 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-12-16 00:35 -0600
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2017-12-17 14:02 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2017-12-17 15:15 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2017-12-17 18:47 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2017-12-17 14:09 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2017-12-17 14:19 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2017-12-17 14:45 -0800
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2017-12-13 19:13 +0000
                Re: Recasting data as long ints and chars James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2018-02-10 05:46 +0000

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