Endianness (was: Backslash replaced by YEN sign)

Kevin Wayne Williams <kww.nihongo@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I've never figured out why some people are so fond of big-endian. It
always makes my head hurt when I have to deal with things getting
twisted around in memory to accommodate it.

Big-endian is the one that you want. It's little-endian that twists
bytes around in memory (by putting the least-significant byte — the
"little end" — first).

<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness>

So, it seems that your opinion agrees precisely with that of the
author: that it's little-endian that makes no sense.

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