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GeneralBlessed endian mismatches collide with progress Pin
honey the codewitch1-Jun-24 7:30
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trønderen2-Jun-24 4:32
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Sure, we could select one tiny little speck of the endianness problem - byte ordering, say - and ignore the rest. Assuming that it was possible to select one single byte ordering and rule out any others, we could declare: 'Hooray! Now the world is free of endianness problems!'

Maybe that would be the case inside your little IDE. At least until you have to handle a date. Or an IP address. Or a decimal multi-digit number.

You may argue: But those are not endianness problems! They is something different from the ordering of bytes within a word!

I'll accept what you say, and you have the full right to say that nothing else than byte ordering falls in under 'endianness'. But the issues are about ordering smallest unit to biggest or biggest to smallest. We could use a different term for this wider problem area, e.g. 'big ordering' or 'small ordering' (and 'mixed ordering'), making 'endianness' a subset of 'ordering'.

In principle, we could then throw out all IBMs, Powers, MC68s, OpenRISC and a number of others, as they are more or less bound to the forbidden endianness. That would leave the tiny 'endianness' speck of the ordering problem area 'solved' (and a few manufacturers would get rid of some nasty competitors). But the rest of the 'ordering' problem domain would remain unsolved. I understand that you don't care about the rest. That is OK with me, as long as you accept that today is 2/6, 2024.
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