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From: graeme.russ@gmail.com (Graeme Russ)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How to figure out the byteorder only with one byte number?
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:19:35 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F412F27.8080907@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329661442.3226.4.camel@thorin>

On 02/20/2012 01:24 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 20:08 +0800, Tao Jiang wrote:
> [...]
>> Is there some difference of the storge between BE and LE machine inside a byte?
> 
> No. At least TTBOMK there exists no such hardware.

Using SHL/SHR would tell you - SHL normally results in a multiply by 2, SHR
a divide by 2. If the byte was little endian, the results would be visa-versa

But I agree, I doubt there is any such hardware

Regards,

Graeme

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-19 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-18 14:33 How to figure out the byteorder only with one byte number? Tao Jiang
2012-02-18 15:59 ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-02-19 12:08   ` Tao Jiang
2012-02-19 14:24     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2012-02-19 17:19       ` Graeme Russ [this message]
2012-02-20 11:25         ` Tao Jiang
2012-02-20 13:53           ` Subramaniam Appadodharana
2012-02-20 22:32             ` THAI NGUYEN
2012-02-21  1:22               ` Sri Ram Vemulpali
2012-02-21 12:30                 ` Tao Jiang
2012-02-21 12:48                   ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2012-02-22 11:27                     ` Tao Jiang

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