Re: Endianness of Java Virtual Machine

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:30:58 -0700, karthikbalaguru
<karthikbalaguru79@xxxxxxxxx> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

I am eager to know the advantages of such a desing of Java Virtual
Machine.

That is not quite true. What is true that Java when it talks to the
outside world always uses big endian. Inside it can be anything.
Unlike C, external files have a precise standard bit representation.
This makes it much easier to share files between different platforms
and different applications.
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