On Fri, 15 Aug 1997 09:11:58 -0700 (PDT) 
 wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu (Bill Studenmund) wrote:

 > What about the case (which I think exists for the Atari's) where
 > interveening hardware does the byte swapping? Also, what about PCI
 > Powermacs? I'm not sure if the hardware there does swapping, but all of
 > the docs I've seen for the MacIO stuff (Mac IO ports off the PCI bus)
 > haven't spoken about enianisms, and Apple runs the CPU as big-endian.

The underlying implementation will know about this and DTRT.

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