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#ifndef __com_sun_star_util_Endianness_idl__
#define __com_sun_star_util_Endianness_idl__

module com { module sun { module star { module util {

/** These constants describe the endianness of data structures.<p>

    The endianness specifies the order in which the bytes of larger
    types are laid out in memory.<p>

    @since OOo 2.0
 */
constants Endianness 
{
    /** Little endian.<p>

        The values are stored in little endian format, i.e. the bytes
        of the long word 0xAABBCCDD are laid out like 0xDD, 0xCC,
        0xBB, 0xAA in memory. That is, data of arbitrary machine word
        lengths always starts with the least significant byte, and
        ends with the most significant one.<p>
     */
    const byte	LITTLE=0;

    /** Big endian.<p>

        The values are stored in big endian format, i.e. the bytes of
        the long word 0xAABBCCDD are laid out like 0xAA, 0xBB, 0xCC,
        0xDD in memory. That is, data of arbitrary machine word
        lengths always start with the most significant byte, and ends
        with the least significant one.<p>
     */
    const byte BIG=1;
};

}; }; }; };

#endif
