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-rw-r--r--string/endian.h12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/string/endian.h b/string/endian.h
index 858ee6e..dcd5a4e 100644
--- a/string/endian.h
+++ b/string/endian.h
@@ -21,11 +21,13 @@
#include <features.h>
-/* Definitions for byte order, according to significance of bytes, from low
- addresses to high addresses. The value is what you get by putting '4'
- in the most significant byte, '3' in the second most significant byte,
- '2' in the second least significant byte, and '1' in the least
- significant byte. */
+/* Definitions for byte order, according to significance of bytes,
+ from low addresses to high addresses. The value is what you get by
+ putting '4' in the most significant byte, '3' in the second most
+ significant byte, '2' in the second least significant byte, and '1'
+ in the least significant byte, and then writing down one digit for
+ each byte, starting with the byte at the lowest address at the left,
+ and proceeding to the byte with the highest address at the right. */
#define __LITTLE_ENDIAN 1234
#define __BIG_ENDIAN 4321