From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan 21 17:04:32 2004
Subject: Re: Testing endianness
From: Przemek Klosowski <przemek at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov>
To: jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:02:34 -0500 (EST)


   If neither are true, I imagine it is a bug.  Would it be better to
   have a different single value stored in octave_config_info?  If so,
   what would you like to call it?

Not necessarily: little-endian is 0123, big-endian is 3210, and PDP-11
used a format (perhaps for floating point, but I don't remember because
it was 25 years ago, blush) where bytes were ordered 0132, or something
like that. I agree though that it is not a current concern.



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