How to figure out the byteorder only with one byte number?

[Tao Jiang]

Hi:

Thank you all.

Take a byte number 0b00000001 for example
                                     ^             ^
                               high bit     low bit

I used to think in a LE machine it will be stored as 0b10000000 low bit first

            ^             ^

        low bit     high bit

and in a BE machine will be 0b00000001 high bit first
                                                ^             ^
                                             high bit    low bit

not only the byteorder is different, but inside a byte is also different.

But actually they are the same, right?
Thank you.



2012/2/20 Graeme Russ <graeme.russ at gmail.com>:
> On 02/20/2012 01:24 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
>> On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 20:08 +0800, Tao Jiang wrote:
>> [...]
>>> Is there some difference of the storge between BE and LE machine inside a byte?
>>
>> No. At least TTBOMK there exists no such hardware.
>
> Using SHL/SHR would tell you - SHL normally results in a multiply by 2, SHR
> a divide by 2. If the byte was little endian, the results would be visa-versa
>
> But I agree, I doubt there is any such hardware
>
> Regards,
>
> Graeme
>