Re: How to figure out the byteorder only with one byte number?

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On 02/20/2012 01:24 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 20:08 +0800, Tao Jiang wrote:
> [...]
>> Is there some difference of the storge between BE and LE machine inside a byte?
> 
> No. At least TTBOMK there exists no such hardware.

Using SHL/SHR would tell you - SHL normally results in a multiply by 2, SHR
a divide by 2. If the byte was little endian, the results would be visa-versa

But I agree, I doubt there is any such hardware

Regards,

Graeme


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