Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Endianess of packet data

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy Black wrote:

> According to a reference book I have, 68000-base computers are big endian,
> Intel (x86, Pentium, etc) procesors are little endian, PowerPC procesors
> can be switched betwene modes, but the Mac OS is always in big endian mode.

Which is why freeciv packets, to be machine independent, use a 
standard order ("network byte order") instead of the native 
endianness of the machine being used.

-- David