Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!oliveb!bbn!news From: news@bbn.COM (News system owner ID) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug Subject: Re: Constants and long long int Message-ID: <45747@bbn.COM> Date: 18 Sep 89 21:28:40 GMT References: <8909130120.AA18850@clocs.cs.unc.edu> Reply-To: pplaceway@izar.bbn.com (Paul W. Placeway) Distribution: gnu Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 13 In article <8909130120.AA18850@clocs.cs.unc.edu> davis@CS.UNC.EDU (Mark Davis) writes: < 2. GCC for the MC 68000 as distributed has the low order word < first followed by the high order word (little endian) while < bits and bytes are big endian. This surprised me. Oh NO!!! Can we *please* not do a "long long" version of confused-endian? Please? wimper. Really. The endian of everything should match the endian of everything else. Let a Vax be a Vax, and ditto for a 68000, otherwise confusion reigns (hence the original term "confused endian"). -- Paul Placeway