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▲ jstimpfle an hour ago

Does that mean there are no file formats thatbuse big endian? And network byte order isn't a thing?

▲teravor 44 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

    > there are no file formats thatbuse big endian
if someone chooses to do that they own the problems.

    > network byte order isn't a thing
if the network serializes/deserializes for you (kernel primitives) then you don't care what it does. if it doesn't and for some reason you choose to use big endian, again, you own the problem.
▲charcircuit 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Generally those edge cases are always the same endianness. You don't need big and little endianness versions of the structures. What's important is that everyone agrees on the same thing.