ng0 <contact....@cryptolab.net> writes:
> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 5.2K bytes:
>> Anyway, I think we should polish and commit real soon. :-) Perhaps we
>> can add a note about endianness and assume little endian for now.
>
> Excuse me if I didn't pay much attention to the thread, I just flipped
> through all of it. Isn't that (little endian) the most common assumption
> most operation system have? I know that Gentoo defaults to little endian.
>
> https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/search?q=big-endian
>
> And we don't support SuperH or similar Big Endian hardware. Or am I
> thinking about different reasons why the endianness here matters?
We should keep the door open to adding support for big-endian systems in
the future. That job will be made more difficult if we incorporate code
that assumes little-endian. Let's please strive for portability.
Mark
