<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"> <head> <title>(IUCr) CIF Definition save__array_structure.byte_order</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../itg.css" /> </head> <body> <!-- begin masthead --> <div class="masthead"> <table class="masthead"> <tr> <td class="masthead" width="30%"> <p class="title">DRAFT DICTIONARY</p> <p class="title"><font class="smalltitle"></font>CBF/imgCIF Extensions Dictionary</p> </td> <td class="masthead"> <p class="title">Draft version 1.5 for comment</p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <!-- end masthead --> <hr> <H1> <a href="http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/welcome.html"> <img alt="[IUCr Home Page]" src="../html_graphics/iucrhome.jpg" ALIGN=MIDDLE></a> <a href="http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/home.html"> <img alt="[CIF Home Page]" src="../html_graphics/cifhome.jpg" ALIGN=MIDDLE></a> <a href="cbf_definition_rev.html"><IMG SRC="../html_graphics/CBFbutton.jpg" ALT="[CBF/imgCIF]" ALIGN=MIDDLE></a> <a href="CBFlib.html"><IMG SRC="../html_graphics/cbflibbutton.jpg" ALT="[CBFlib]" ALIGN=MIDDLE></a> </H1> <hr> <!-- begin navbar --> <div class="navbar"> <table class="navbar"> <tr> <td><a class="navbar" href="index.html">Contents</a></td> </tr> </table> </div> <!-- end navbar --> <p class="index"><a class="index" href="index.html">Index</a></p> <h5>Image dictionary (imgCIF) version 1.5.4</h5> <h1>_array_structure.byte_order</h1><b>Name:</b><br /><tt class="cifdefinition">'_array_structure.byte_order'</tt> <p><b>Definition:</b></p><pre class="cifdefinition"> The order of bytes for integer values which require more than 1 byte. (IBM-PC's and compatibles and DEC VAXs use low-byte-first ordered integers, whereas Hewlett Packard 700 series, Sun-4 and Silicon Graphics use high-byte-first ordered integers. DEC Alphas can produce/use either depending on a compiler switch.) </pre> <p><b>Type:</b> ucode</p> <p class="pack"><b>Mandatory item:</b> yes</p> <br /><b>The data value must be one of the following:</b><br /><br /> <table width="100%"><tr class="cifexample"><td width="50%"> <br /><tt>big_endian</tt> </td><td width="50%"> The first byte in the byte stream of the bytes which make up an integer value is the most significant byte of an integer. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%"><tr class="cifexample"><td width="50%"> <br /><tt>little_endian</tt> </td><td width="50%"> The last byte in the byte stream of the bytes which make up an integer value is the most significant byte of an integer. </td></tr></table> <p class="pack"><b>Category:</b> <a href="Carray_structure.html" class="catlink">array_structure</a></p> <h4 align=left> HTML version of draft dictionary created by modified version of makedicthtml by B. McMahon from modified version of imgCIF dcitionary 1.3.2 which is subject to the following copyright: </h4> <!-- begin copyright --> <div class="copyright"> <p class="copyright">Copyright © 2005 International Union of Crystallography</p> </div> <!-- end copyright --> </body> </html>