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Is this a joke or am I just unaware of any systems out there that are "middle-endian"..?!
by dataflow 5y ago
Is this a joke or am I just unaware of any systems out there that are "middle-endian"..?!
- hvdijk 5y agoThere are no current middle-endian systems but they used to exist. The PDP-11 is the most famous one. The macros would work on all systems, but as only very old systems are middle-endian, they also have old compilers so may not be able to optimise it as well.
- mannschott 5y agoSadly not a joke, but thankfully quite obscure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Middle-endian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Middle-endian