Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Mar 1999 22:29:44 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order |
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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 doctor@fruitbat.org wrote: > > You should be looking for any good reason to choose one format over > another, not just technical reasons. Networks were built by humans and > debugged by humans. Quite frankly looking at raw network packets off of > a wire is much easier to read if it's readable by humans (and, yes, this > is exactly what I've done in the past).
What is it with you people?
LE and BE are completely made up constructs. Neither is better than the other.
If you want to look at network packets, nobody uses raw hex dumps. Or if they do, they should sure as hell not use "readable" as an excuse for doing so.
There are tools out there to make data much more readable, and LE and BE has nothing at all to do with it.
> > Avoid confusion. > > How about "strive for a better Kernel" instead.
For the last time: big-endian is _NOT_ "better". Never has been, never will be.
People think I'm some kind of endianness bigot. I'm not. I just refuse to be conviced by completely spacious arguments. IA-32 is LE, and for that reason (and that reason alone), so is the IA-64 version of Linux going to be.
Just because we don't want to mix, not because I think LE is somehow fundamentally better.
Linus
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