what are BE and LE?

"Jaromír Dolecek" wrote:

> Stargate Industries, LLC - Network Operations Center wrote:
> > I don't suppose the NTFS code will work on other ports?
>
> There is nothing inherently non-portable in there. Since
> it has not been tested on any BE machine, I expect it to have
> quite a few LE dependencies (and hence could fail mysteriously
> on BE machines). It might "just work" for LE architectures
> other than i386.
> Once I get myself mac68k, I'd be able to even do some tests
> myself - IIRC, m68k are BE :)
>
> Jaromir
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> Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
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