Re: Big Endian Byte Ordering

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From: Jonathan Wood (jwood_at_softcircuits.com)
Date: 01/11/05 

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:01:26 -0700

Okay, so addressing to structure members is not affected by big-endian byte
ordering.

Thanks. 

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Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits
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"Scott McPhillips [MVP]" <org-dot-mvps-at-scottmcp> wrote in message
news:O03eBXS9EHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Jonathan Wood wrote:
> > I have a question about big-endian byte ordering.
> >
> > I know that with, for example, a WORD value, big endian byte ordering
puts
> > the two bytes in the reverse order that little endian does, which is
used by
> > Intel processors.
> >
> > What I don't know is what happens in the case of structures. For
example, I
> > know each member in the structure has its bytes reversed. But are all
bytes
> > of the structure reversed?
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out how to convert a structure data type fo big
endian
> > and I don't know if I can simply reverse all the bytes, or if I need to
do
> > something more complicated like just reverse the bytes of each member.
> >
> > Thanks for any tips!
> >
>
> The endian-ness affects individual members only and is determined by the
> CPU.  Structure packing and arrangement is determined by the compiler.
>
> -- 
> Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]
>

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