I know a few places. The answer is, 100% of the time, "legacy code." One of my former employers has millions of lines of code that just assume a bigendian ar

I know a few places. The answer is, 100% of the time, "legacy code." One of my former employers has millions of lines of code that just assume a bigendian architecture and play fast and loose with byte order as a result. They are probably not gonna port that code off SPARC any time soon. Eventually. But not soon.