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remember that we're on x86 here, which is a big-endian architecture While I wish this were true, x86 is little-endian.
by amock 2y ago
remember that we're on x86 here, which is a big-endian architecture
While I wish this were true, x86 is little-endian.
- greenyoda 2y agoThe author correctly states that x86 has "lower bits at the beginning, bigger bits on the end", but, as you said, that's the definition of little-endian.
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- ssafar 2y agoApparently, I even made up an explanation for why "big-endian == start with the least significant bit" totally makes sense... couldn't convince the Universe this way either though. Thanks for catching it, fixed!