Re: [boost] Re: BOOST_BIG_ENDIAN

From: Darin Adler (darin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-27 22:18:06

On Jul 24, 2004, at 9:02 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu ((See Website for 
Email)) wrote:

>> there's also the problem
>> that there are more than two orderings possible, for example
>> for 4 byte types the byte ordering could be any of:
>>
>> 1 2 3 4
>> 4 3 2 1
>> 2 1 4 3
>> 3 4 1 2
>
> Really? I only knew of machines with 2 orderings. What machines use the
> others?

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness> says that the PDP machines 
used 3 4 1 2.

     -- Darin