Guys, I was late to the party. But this whole discussion throughs me off. When you say byte order, it applied when the width of data is more than a byte, lets say our width is 4 bytes, a typical word length. Now how is that there will be byte order on a byte width data. Are you talking about nibble order. When you talk byte order -- either little endian or big endian, we are talking how is our data should be interpreted. Depending on order we start reading data from left or right a byte at a time. So, I am confused on your discussions. Please clarify. Thanks, Sri. On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:32 PM, THAI NGUYEN <thai-n@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Just as an FYI, way back in the early '90s, Texas Instruments came out with > a graphics processor (I believe the TMS340x0 praphics processor) that > actually did do the little-ending and big-endian down to the bit level. > > > ________________________________ > From: Subramaniam Appadodharana <c.a.subramaniam@xxxxxxxxx> > To: Tao Jiang <jiangtao.jit@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@xxxxxxxxx>; Bernd Petrovitsch > <bernd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@xxxxxxxxx>; > kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 8:53:10 AM > Subject: Re: How to figure out the byteorder only with one byte number? > > Hi Tao, > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Tao Jiang <jiangtao.jit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi: >> >> Thank you all. >> >> Take a byte number 0b00000001 for example >> ^ ^ >> high bit low bit >> >> I used to think in a LE machine it will be stored as 0b10000000 low bit >> first >> >> ^ ^ >> >> low bit high bit >> >> and in a BE machine will be 0b00000001 high bit first >> ^ ^ >> high bit low bit >> >> not only the byteorder is different, but inside a byte is also different. >> >> But actually they are the same, right? > yes they are same. In fact it is termed as 'byte' order not 'bit' > order. Hope this helps. >> Thank you. >> >> >> >> 2012/2/20 Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kernelnewbies mailing list >> Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > -- Regards, Sri. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
