Subject: Re: a bit old, but a bit odd
To: None <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: None <cgd@broadcom.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 05/02/2003 21:42:53
At Sat, 3 May 2003 03:56:27 +0000 (UTC), "Simon Burge" wrote:
> I've been annoyed at this but never enough to dig in and fix it.  You
> should see that little-endian binaries reported by file as "LSB" and
> big-endian as "MSB".  Not as useful as "little endian" or "big endian",
> but it can tell the difference.

And before anybody gets any Great Ideas:

There are a bunch of scripts out there that do actually look for the
strings "LSB" and "MSB" in "file" output to determine endianness, so
please don't "fix" it.

8-)


cgd