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Subject: Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })
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On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:57:56 GMT
scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:

> 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.
> 

802.3 frames are big-endian, because of Length field.
Several orders of magnitude more popular Ethernet II frames are
endian-neutral.