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#ifndef __com_sun_star_rendering_Endianness_idl__
#define __com_sun_star_rendering_Endianness_idl__

module com { module sun { module star { module rendering {

/** These constans describe the endiannes of data structures.<p>

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

    @since OOo 2.0.0
 */
constants Endianness 
{
    /** Little endian.<p>

    	The values are stored in little endian format, i.e. the bytes
    	of the long word 0xAABBCCDD are layed out like 0xDD, 0xCC,
    	0xBB, 0xAA in memory.<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 layed out like 0xAA, 0xBB,
    	0xCC, 0xDD in memory.<p>
     */
    const byte BIG=1;
};

}; }; }; };

#endif
