1 Feb
2012
1 Feb
'12
9:46 p.m.
From: Mouse
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 1:21 AM
Even your example "portable regarding
endianess" is only relative;
does this putatively portable code actually work in unusual cases
such as PDP-endian, or just the two common endiannesses?
^^^^^^^^^^
What does that term mean? ;->
After all, there are 4 different architectures which were all produced
under the rubric "PDP-x" by Digital Equipment Corporation, and only
one of those has any oddities to its endian behaviour. The others all
name the high-order bit of the word "0", with the low-order bit
varying in name among "11", "17", and "35".
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
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