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Well, NBO is big endian and PPC/Sparc/MIPS were usually BE in servers, now in routers and TVs, and LE in printers... Though POWER8 switched to LE. So you can (
by angry_octet 10y ago
Well, NBO is big endian and PPC/Sparc/MIPS were usually BE in servers, now in routers and TVs, and LE in printers... Though POWER8 switched to LE.
So you can (and I have) write programs for these BE systems that completely neglect to use swizzling. You will also see code that doesn't use the swizzling macros (htons, ntohs, etc) because they 'know' the packets need to be swizzled and they do it always, when they shouldn't on some architectures.