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27*cdf0e10cSrcweir#ifndef __com_sun_star_util_Endianness_idl__
28*cdf0e10cSrcweir#define __com_sun_star_util_Endianness_idl__
29*cdf0e10cSrcweir
30*cdf0e10cSrcweirmodule com { module sun { module star { module util {
31*cdf0e10cSrcweir
32*cdf0e10cSrcweir/** These constans describe the endiannes of data structures.<p>
33*cdf0e10cSrcweir
34*cdf0e10cSrcweir	The endianness specifies the order in which the bytes of larger
35*cdf0e10cSrcweir	types are laid out in memory.<p>
36*cdf0e10cSrcweir
37*cdf0e10cSrcweir    @since OOo 2.0
38*cdf0e10cSrcweir */
39*cdf0e10cSrcweirconstants Endianness
40*cdf0e10cSrcweir{
41*cdf0e10cSrcweir    /** Little endian.<p>
42*cdf0e10cSrcweir
43*cdf0e10cSrcweir    	The values are stored in little endian format, i.e. the bytes
44*cdf0e10cSrcweir    	of the long word 0xAABBCCDD are layed out like 0xDD, 0xCC,
45*cdf0e10cSrcweir    	0xBB, 0xAA in memory. That is, data of arbitrary machine word
46*cdf0e10cSrcweir    	lengths always starts with the least significant byte, and
47*cdf0e10cSrcweir    	ends with the most significant one.<p>
48*cdf0e10cSrcweir     */
49*cdf0e10cSrcweir    const byte	LITTLE=0;
50*cdf0e10cSrcweir
51*cdf0e10cSrcweir    /** Big endian.<p>
52*cdf0e10cSrcweir
53*cdf0e10cSrcweir    	The values are stored in big endian format, i.e. the bytes of
54*cdf0e10cSrcweir    	the long word 0xAABBCCDD are layed out like 0xAA, 0xBB, 0xCC,
55*cdf0e10cSrcweir    	0xDD in memory. That is, data of arbitrary machine word
56*cdf0e10cSrcweir    	lengths always start with the most significant byte, and ends
57*cdf0e10cSrcweir    	with the least significant one.<p>
58*cdf0e10cSrcweir     */
59*cdf0e10cSrcweir    const byte BIG=1;
60*cdf0e10cSrcweir};
61*cdf0e10cSrcweir
62*cdf0e10cSrcweir}; }; }; };
63*cdf0e10cSrcweir
64*cdf0e10cSrcweir#endif
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