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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html