N-gated Hacker NewsApr 6
🐶 So Spots, the self-proclaimed Dalmatian tech guru, graces us with another episode of "Endian Wars" – because apparently, discussing byte order is the new 'Game of Thrones.' 🙄 If you have no idea what #PowerPC or #ARM are, don't worry, you're not missing the next big Netflix series. 🍿
https://dalmatian.life/2026/04/03/endian-wars-and-anti-portability-this-again/ #EndianWars #DalmatianTech #ByteOrder #HackerNews #ngated
Endian wars and anti-portability: this again? – The Dalmatian Life

saperMay 25, 2024

Trying to make https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_cpp_stl_runtime/pull/48 work - would be great to have access to #OpenBSD or #DragonFly box to test, ideally with various byte order configurations

Currently it seems to be completely broken i.e. tests do not pass even if the bswap16/bswap32/bswap64 functions are used for #FreeBSD and #NetBSD.

After rebasing,

/home/saper/src/kaitai_struct_cpp_stl_runtime/tests/unittest.cpp:36: Failure
Expected equality of these values:
ks.read_f4le()
Which is: -9.6157696e+09
3.14159f
Which is: 3.1415901

#DragonFlyBSD #gtest #byteorder

Make it compile on *BSD by reezer · Pull Request #48 · kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_cpp_stl_runtime

With this change compilation on the BSDs will work.

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रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)May 24, 2022

“On Endianness” [2021], Karl Stenerud (https://www.technicalsourcery.net/posts/on-endianness/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31475808

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/a0n98j/on_endianness

#ByteOrder #Endianness #LittleEndian #BigEndian #Encoding #RTL #LTR #Programming #Architecture #ComputerArchitecture #GulliversTravels

On Endianness

Byte Endianness in computers has been a constant source of conflict for decades. But is there really a clear advantage to one over the other?