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comandillos on Jan 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Is big-endian dead?

Im working for an Space Agency and we'r using SPARC for all our sats CPUs. Basically, Big-Endian.

speleo_engr on Jan 19, 2018 [–]

I worked on a code base using the LEON (SPARC, big-endian) and also ARM in little-endian mode for space. The code was common for both endians. I followed the sage advice of Rob Pike on it: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/04/byte-order-fallac...

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