Re: [PLUG] RedHat 7.1 glibc2.1 Backward compat - revisited

[LeRoy Cressy <lcressy@telocity.com>]

little endian and big endian are the two methods for aligning the bytes
of an integer.

dict big-endian

>From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:

  big-endian adj.  [common; From Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" via
  the famous paper "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" by Danny
  Cohen, USC/ISI IEN 137, dated April 1, 1980] 1. Describes a computer
  architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric
representation,
  the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored
  `big-end-first').  Most processors, including the IBM 370 family,
  the {PDP-10}, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the
  various RISC designs are big-endian.  Big-endian byte order is also
  sometimes called `network order'. See {little-endian},
{middle-endian},
  {NUXI problem}, {swab}.  


As you can see if the compiler messes up up the order nothing will work.

William Shank wrote:
> 
> align bits properly?
> 
> i don't recall learning about that in my computer design and architecture
> classes?
> 
> is that for real? if so, please point me to somewhere I can read up on bit
> alignment in the kernel.
> 
> it sounds fishy to me.

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