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From: Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 09:32:39 +0200
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Am 14.06.2025 um 15:57 schrieb Scott Lurndal:
> Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> writes:
>> Am 10.06.2025 um 15:01 schrieb Tim Rentsch:
>>
>>> Consider the following program:
>>>
>>>      #include <stdio.h>
>>>      #include <string.h>
>>>
>>>      typedef unsigned long long ULL;
>>>      ULL hello = ((((0ULL +'o' <<8) +'l' <<8) +'l' <<8) +'e' <<8) + 'h';
>>>
>>>      int
>>>      main(){
>>>         printf( "length is %zu\n", strlen( (char*)&hello ) );
>>>         return  0;
>>>      }
>>>
>>> On a little endian machine (with CHAR_BIT == 8) this program works,
>>> and TTBOMK conforms to both the letter and the spirit of the C
>>> standard, without any undefined behavior (on that platform).  Yet
>>> there are no arrays in sight, and certainly no array objects.
>>
>> There are not much remaining big-endian architectures today.
> 
> Ethernet is big-endian at the byte level and little-endian
> at the bit level.

However, little-endian is simply the smarter concept.