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#6414: clarify description of processor endianness. 

Text by Alexey Shamrin; I changed 'DEC Alpha' to the more relevant 'Intel Itanium'.
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Andrew M. Kuchling 2010-02-22 15:13:17 +00:00
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@ -187,9 +187,11 @@ following table:
If the first character is not one of these, ``'@'`` is assumed.
Native byte order is big-endian or little-endian, depending on the host system.
For example, Motorola and Sun processors are big-endian; Intel and DEC
processors are little-endian.
Native byte order is big-endian or little-endian, depending on the host
system. For example, Intel x86 and AMD64 (x86-64) are little-endian;
Motorola 68000 and PowerPC G5 are big-endian; ARM and Intel Itanium feature
switchable endianness (bi-endian). Use ``sys.byteorder`` to check the
endianness of your system.
Native size and alignment are determined using the C compiler's
``sizeof`` expression. This is always combined with native byte order.