Re: Bytes' order with different C++ compilers

On May 12, 7:59 am, Carl Barron <cbarron...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article
> <6f39f6d4-60f2-468e-9221-16317be5a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>
> <Ulysses4e...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Sorry, I've got a question closely connected with this topic. Where
> > could I find the direct instruction that C++ compiler is not allowed
> > to manilupate the bytes' oreder in representation of numbers for its
> > free will. It could seem obivous for someone but not for me. I mean I
> > want be shure that on the same hardware platform different C++
> > comilers will expose the same bytes' order (if the platform itself
> > operates with fixed bytes' order of course).
>
> > Thank you in advance.
>
>  The sizeof integral types and the internal byte order is unspecified,
> that is nothing is written that compiler X and Y on processor Z have
> the same sized ints or the same internal byte order.
>

About the sizes of types it is clear, they're discussed in 3.9.1 part
of the Standard. Just can't find some discussion on bytes' orders in
any official paper.


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