[ECOS] REAL meaning of little-endian and big-endian?

[Doug Fraser]

Having the MSB on PPC be bit 0 is an IBM thing.
On every other Motorola processor, bit 0 is the LSB.
It is a carry over from the original IBM Power architecture.

Douglas Fraser
dfraser@photuris.com
732 465 1000 x1231
Photuris, Inc.
20 Corporate Place South
Piscataway, NJ 08854 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sergei Organov [mailto:osv@javad.ru]
> 
> Motorola PowerPC manuals call most significant bit 'bit 0' ;-)

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