Re: [PATCH] Add a birdview-on-the-source-code section to the user manual

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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:15:19PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> If you parse a number, passed to a program, with strtol(argv[1], NULL, 0) 
> you would expect something like this on an Intel processor:
> 
> Input 0x1234 -> memory 0x34 0x12 0x00 0x00.

Right, but this is something special to integers.  If it made sense for
some strange reason to define the structure carrying a sha1 as int[5]
instead of char[20] then I'd understand the confusion, but char[20] is
totally unambiguous.

> But if all this sounds too confusing, I agree to delete the 
> "(big-endian)".

Yeah, I think that'd be best; thanks.

--b.
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