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23cdf0e10cSrcweir#ifndef __com_sun_star_util_Endianness_idl__
24cdf0e10cSrcweir#define __com_sun_star_util_Endianness_idl__
25cdf0e10cSrcweir
26cdf0e10cSrcweirmodule com { module sun { module star { module util {
27cdf0e10cSrcweir
28cdf0e10cSrcweir/** These constans describe the endiannes of data structures.<p>
29cdf0e10cSrcweir
30cdf0e10cSrcweir	The endianness specifies the order in which the bytes of larger
31cdf0e10cSrcweir	types are laid out in memory.<p>
32cdf0e10cSrcweir
33cdf0e10cSrcweir    @since OOo 2.0
34cdf0e10cSrcweir */
35cdf0e10cSrcweirconstants Endianness
36cdf0e10cSrcweir{
37cdf0e10cSrcweir    /** Little endian.<p>
38cdf0e10cSrcweir
39cdf0e10cSrcweir    	The values are stored in little endian format, i.e. the bytes
40cdf0e10cSrcweir    	of the long word 0xAABBCCDD are layed out like 0xDD, 0xCC,
41cdf0e10cSrcweir    	0xBB, 0xAA in memory. That is, data of arbitrary machine word
42cdf0e10cSrcweir    	lengths always starts with the least significant byte, and
43cdf0e10cSrcweir    	ends with the most significant one.<p>
44cdf0e10cSrcweir     */
45cdf0e10cSrcweir    const byte	LITTLE=0;
46cdf0e10cSrcweir
47cdf0e10cSrcweir    /** Big endian.<p>
48cdf0e10cSrcweir
49cdf0e10cSrcweir    	The values are stored in big endian format, i.e. the bytes of
50cdf0e10cSrcweir    	the long word 0xAABBCCDD are layed out like 0xAA, 0xBB, 0xCC,
51cdf0e10cSrcweir    	0xDD in memory. That is, data of arbitrary machine word
52cdf0e10cSrcweir    	lengths always start with the most significant byte, and ends
53cdf0e10cSrcweir    	with the least significant one.<p>
54cdf0e10cSrcweir     */
55cdf0e10cSrcweir    const byte BIG=1;
56cdf0e10cSrcweir};
57cdf0e10cSrcweir
58cdf0e10cSrcweir}; }; }; };
59cdf0e10cSrcweir
60cdf0e10cSrcweir#endif
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