[Coco] Byte Order Question

[jdaggett at gate.net]

David

You would see

ABCD

and 

AB

Bit order is generally left to right starting with the Most Significant 
Bit on the Left ie:

b32,  b32, b30, ... ,b3, b2, b1,  b0

james


On 27 Jul 2004 at 21:35, David Gacke wrote:

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> Hi All,
> 
> I've got a byte order question and I'm sure someone on here can give
> me the correct answer.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out the byte order of 16 and 32 bit register
> writes from a 6809 and 6309 
> 
> I'll use text characters as an example.
> 
> For instance, if I have a 32 bit value of say 0x41424344  ('ABCD') and
> I were to write that to video display memory, what would I see?
> 
> Would it be:
> 
> ABCD
> 
> CDBA
> 
> DCBA
> 
> 
> Also, what about 16 bit writes of say 0x4142..
> 
> Is it 
> 
> AB or BA?
> 
> 
> I need someone to give me a sanity check while I'm coding something. 
> :)
> 
> Thanks a bunch!
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
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