Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: little-endian Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:32:18 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Lines: 33 Message-ID: <87r4ntp4b1.fsf@informatimago.com> References: <2f491c75-8fbc-4dca-9abe-f11e784454a2@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net QYfO60iy2L4Adt1R+FYTfwGSjFdVO3Y1G3Luri8tndL3xpn2ZUI5AM9yhzZonzOV4z Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZGYyZGU2YzliMjRiMjQ4NDc3MmRkZDc2YmFlZDU2OWRlYTE5NzhkYQ== sha1:FqRlYQcFTIw4DA/qpzC2XRDCzXk= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:2489 bob writes: > On Thursday, November 15, 2012 4:06:17 PM UTC-6, robert...@yahoo.com wrote: >> The terms actually come from Jonathan Swift's, "Gulliver�s Travels" >> >> where there were two rival kingdoms, one where they ate eggs starting >> >> at the little end (aka the "little endians") and the other in which it >> >> was correct to eat the egg from the big end. So it's really a >> >> statement of which end you start the number (or egg) from. > > I don't see the explicit mention of 'Little-endian' in the book, but I guess it's implied: > > It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times > suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller > end.   Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this > controversy: but the books of the Big-endians have been long > forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding > employments. > > Swift, Jonathan (2012-05-12). Gulliver's Travels (Timeless Classics) > (Kindle Locations 530-532). Saddleback Educational Publishing. Kindle > Edition. I'm a little endian egg eater, but a big endian programmer. I prefer my numbers stored in memory big endian first :-) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com