Subj : Re: Synchronet can maybe.
To   : Tracker1
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Aug 01 2005 01:25 pm

  Re: Re: Synchronet can maybe.
  By: Tracker1 to Digital Man on Sat Jul 30 2005 06:11 pm

 > Digital Man wrote:
 > >> Like 1<<1 vs 1>>1 ... iirc byte order isn't part of the js spec, or wasn'
 > >> earlier on...
 > >
 > > Those operators are not endian-specific. The only time endianness really c
 > > into play is when reading/writing an integer to/from disk or a communicati
 > > pipe (e.g. TCP socket).
 > >
 > > Since core JS doesn't include any methods for reading/writing to disk or
 > > sockets, I don't see how endianness could be an issue.
 > 
 > okay, just tested this...
 >      javascript:alert(1<<1);
 > 
 > Looks like it works correctly on newer browsers, but will swear that a few
 > years ago, it explicitly did *not* work right on at least one mac browser,
 > don't recall if it was ie or nn... but do recall having endian issues in JS 
 > a mac before.  *shrug*

But "1<<1" has nothing to do with endianness. (1<<1)==2 on *all* systems.

                                                  digital man

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