Cleaned up headers and copyright text.

bacnet-stack/src/bigend.c

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+/* Derived from "Unix Incompatibility Notes: Byte Order" by Jan Wolter */
+/* http://unixpapa.com/incnote/byteorder.html */
+
 /* Big-Endian systems save the most significant byte first.  */
 /* Sun and Motorola processors, IBM-370s and PDP-10s are big-endian. */
 /* "Network Byte Order" is also know as "Big-Endian Byte Order" */
@@ -15,6 +18,19 @@
 /* x[2] = 0x03 */
 /* x[3] = 0x04 */
 
+/* Note: Endianness doesn't apply to all variable manipulation.
+   If you use bitwise or bitshift operations on integers,
+   you can avoid having to check for endianness. */
+
+/* The names are derived from Jonathon Swift's book Gulliver's Travels, 
+   where they describe Lilliputian political parties who disagree 
+   vehemently over which end to start eating an egg from. 
+   This terminology was popularized for byte order by a less than 
+   completely serious paper authored by Danny Cohen which appeared 
+   on April 1, 1980 and was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace" */
+
+/* function to return true on Big-Endian architectures */
+/* (based on Harbison & Steele) */
 int big_endian(
     void)
 {