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27#ifndef __com_sun_star_util_Endianness_idl__
28#define __com_sun_star_util_Endianness_idl__
29
30module com { module sun { module star { module util {
31
32/** These constans describe the endiannes of data structures.<p>
33
34	The endianness specifies the order in which the bytes of larger
35	types are laid out in memory.<p>
36
37    @since OOo 2.0
38 */
39constants Endianness
40{
41    /** Little endian.<p>
42
43    	The values are stored in little endian format, i.e. the bytes
44    	of the long word 0xAABBCCDD are layed out like 0xDD, 0xCC,
45    	0xBB, 0xAA in memory. That is, data of arbitrary machine word
46    	lengths always starts with the least significant byte, and
47    	ends with the most significant one.<p>
48     */
49    const byte	LITTLE=0;
50
51    /** Big endian.<p>
52
53    	The values are stored in big endian format, i.e. the bytes of
54    	the long word 0xAABBCCDD are layed out like 0xAA, 0xBB, 0xCC,
55    	0xDD in memory. That is, data of arbitrary machine word
56    	lengths always start with the most significant byte, and ends
57    	with the least significant one.<p>
58     */
59    const byte BIG=1;
60};
61
62}; }; }; };
63
64#endif
65