Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order | Date | 9 Mar 1999 19:07:34 GMT |
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In article <36E5678C.380F3E33@t-online.de>, Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj.lisa@t-online.de> wrote: >> >> The computing world would be better off with just one byte order, that >> byte order isn't going to be BE. > >Take it easy, BE folks, LE is better, because i.e. error detection >of network protocols, which are normally BE. If you coders forget to >swap a single short, LE will easily show up (aka. won't work).
I appreciate the sarcasm, but that isn't my point.
My POINT is that there is absolutely no technical reason to prefer one over the other.
And like it or not, LE is very dominant due to PC's and the MS inability to work with BE machines on NT. So LE isn't going away any time soon.
In short, the best we can hope for is to just end the confusion, and that BE will fade. No, I don't think that's likely either, but it's better than having two different byteorders with no technical reason to chose between the two.
Avoid confusion.
Linus
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