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Re: Big and little indian valid in a byte??



On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 14:37:59 +0530, syedk wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>      This is the structure declaration of IP Header. Can you tell me how 
> little endian  and big endian come into picture in the case of  a 
> byte.   U can find this declaration in 
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/ip.h.
> 
> struct iphdr {
> #if defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD)
>          __u8    ihl:4,
>                  version:4;
> #elif defined (__BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD)
>          __u8    version:4,
>                  ihl:4;

You sure know, what the :4 modifier means. So you should know, what's
the difference between these two declaratinons. And thus know, what in
the compiler is affected by endianity.

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