4 ms·

These gotchas make keeping a big-endian machine around totally worth it.

• dataflow 3y ago
  I'm guessing there isn't any way to simulate big endian on x86?
  • deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
  • JonChesterfield 3y ago
    A compiler could do that - involves inserting bswap on the way to/from memory, might also be a worthwhile flag for big endian machines that want to execute code that assumes little endian load/stores. I don't know of an implementation of such though.
    • o11c 3y ago
      GCC has `__attribute__((scalar_storage_order("big-endian")))`. Note that the attribute is applied on `struct`s (and `union`s), taking effect for scalars within them, but does not recurse into further aggregates.
• RaisingSpear 3y ago
  Don't forget a middle-endian machine too!