what order does AudioRecord class of Android store the audio samples in?

what order does AudioRecord class of Android store the audio samples in?

If I call the read() method, as
record.read(lin, 0, R_fft);
where lin is a short array of size 256 and R_fft is 8, in what order does
the read() function store the audio samples from MIC in? For instanc, is
it
lin[0] -> oldest sample
..
..
lin[8] -> newest sample
or is it the other way round, that is
lin[0] -> newest sample
..
..
lin[8] -> oldest sample
or do the samples go towards the higher end of the lin[] array, that is
towards, lin[248] to lin[255]?