[ID 20000817.023] endianness description in perlfunc.pod

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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index fd724a1..5c8f88a 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -3153,8 +3153,8 @@ because they obey the native byteorder and endianness.  For example a
 4-byte integer 0x12345678 (305419896 decimal) be ordered natively
 (arranged in and handled by the CPU registers) into bytes as
 
-       0x12 0x34 0x56 0x78     # little-endian
-       0x78 0x56 0x34 0x12     # big-endian
+       0x12 0x34 0x56 0x78     # big-endian
+       0x78 0x56 0x34 0x12     # little-endian
 
 Basically, the Intel, Alpha, and VAX CPUs are little-endian, while
 everybody else, for example Motorola m68k/88k, PPC, Sparc, HP PA,