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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index fd724a1704..5c8f88a10b 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -3153,8 +3153,8 @@ because they obey the native byteorder and endianness. For example a 4-byte integer 0x12345678 (305419896 decimal) be ordered natively (arranged in and handled by the CPU registers) into bytes as - 0x12 0x34 0x56 0x78 # little-endian - 0x78 0x56 0x34 0x12 # big-endian + 0x12 0x34 0x56 0x78 # big-endian + 0x78 0x56 0x34 0x12 # little-endian Basically, the Intel, Alpha, and VAX CPUs are little-endian, while everybody else, for example Motorola m68k/88k, PPC, Sparc, HP PA, |