Subject: Re: Generic Properties
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/29/2001 22:46:51
>> So, if you've got an array of ints, how does userland know what size
>> they are?

> I suppose little endian machines need to know this type of thing to
> print out integral values.

So do big-endian machines, unless you like having multiple small values
smushed together, or big values split up.

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