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Re: [DotGNU]Endianness?
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Rich Baumann |
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Re: [DotGNU]Endianness? |
Date: |
07 Nov 2003 17:01:39 -0500 |
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:30, HJ wrote:
> Is it known wether MS.NET is host-endian or little-endian always?
The ECMA spec requires that conforming CLRs always be little-endian. The
MS.NET CLR only runs on x86, which is little-endian, so it follows the
spec. The Portable.NET CLR, when running on big-endian machines, does
byte-swapping to provide a little-endian view of the data, so it also
follows the spec.
Rich