On 2014-09-27 11:18:18 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On 27 Sep 2014, at 10:36, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > > > > Except that the endianness war has been won by little-endian > > And yet, network byte order remains big.
But does this matter in the context of these binary data files? On 2014-09-27 13:06:56 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Jonathan Dowland: > > It's less important which endian they pick, but that they pick one > > and use it consistently across arches. > > > The advantage of using big-endian data on a little-endian system is that > you actually have a chance of finding mis-swapped and/or mis-sized items. However, conversely, if little-endian data is chosen, you just need to test on a big-endian system. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140927205834.ga24...@xvii.vinc17.org
