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1. Is FreeBSD little Endian like windows?

2. Linux is Big endian?

wrote a code int i = 1;    if((i >> 1) == 0) little else big
got little on all platforms bsd,linux,windows.

*Does endianness depends on OS or the hardware?*
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*Thanks,*
*navneet*