27 Mar
2005
27 Mar
'05
3:14 p.m.
I assume that the spec for FFS must dictate byte-order
in most places
where it's necessary...
I don't think it does. I think all, and certainly within epsilon of
all, multi-byte quantities are stored in host-native byte order.
(Assuming, of course, that you haven't mounted it with opposite
endianness, on systems that can. And, of course, it's possible that
someone has built an implementation that *always* swaps, eg as I
spectulated Sun may have done for the 386i.)
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