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#ifndef __com_sun_star_util_Endianness_idl__
#define __com_sun_star_util_Endianness_idl__

module com { module sun { module star { module util {

/** These constants describe the endiannes of data structures.<p>

	The endianness specifies the order in which the bytes of larger
	types are laid out in memory.<p>

    @since OpenOffice 2.0
 */
constants Endianness 
{
    /** Little endian.<p>

    	The values are stored in little endian format, i.e. the bytes
    	of the long word 0xAABBCCDD are laid out like 0xDD, 0xCC,
    	0xBB, 0xAA in memory. That is, data of arbitrary machine word
    	lengths always starts with the least significant byte, and
    	ends with the most significant one.<p>
     */
    const byte LITTLE=0;

    /** Big endian.<p>

    	The values are stored in big endian format, i.e. the bytes of
    	the long word 0xAABBCCDD are laid out like 0xAA, 0xBB, 0xCC,
    	0xDD in memory. That is, data of arbitrary machine word
    	lengths always start with the most significant byte, and ends
    	with the least significant one.<p>
     */
    const byte BIG=1;
};

}; }; }; };

#endif