Re: Cohen's paper on byte order
From: Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen_at_t-online.de)
Date: 04/26/03
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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 10:04:48 +0200
Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
>
[snip]
> It may be noted that due to the case of B vs. L, i.e.
> different byte ordering, one should take care of the
> different sizes of 'unsigned int' on different machines.
> A file for general data transfer should thus contain
> information of that size, so that eventually a needed
> conversion could be done.
Addendum: I realize that this is not necessary, if
(B, b) is taken as the 'reference' hardware, for the
sequence of 16 8-bit units as depicted (abstractly) in
Fig. 2, will always to written out in that order on such
hardware beginning with the leftmost unit of Fig. 2,
independent of the word size. Thus (B, b) seems to be
the best choice.
M. K. Shen
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