On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:18:52PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > BTW I wonder if trace files are endianness-dependent by design -- > normally you'd store them in network byte order (= big endian) only and > use htonX() when writing, an ntohX() when reading.
Yes, they are host endian but the magic number tells you whether they are in big or little endian. So if a parser cared it could handle both endiannesses. Stefan