> correspond to a binary format in accordance with the C ABI on your particular system.
We're so deep in this hole that people are fixing this on a CPU with silicon.
The Graviton team made a little-endian version of ARM just to allow lazy code like this to migrate away from Intel chips without having to rewrite struct unpacking (& also IBM with the ppc64le).
Early in my career, I spent a lot of my time reading Java bytecode into little endian to match all the bytecode interpreter enums I had & completely hating how 0xCAFEBABE would literally say BE BA FE CA (jokingly referred as "be bull shit") in a (gdb) x views.
We're so deep in this hole that people are fixing this on a CPU with silicon.
The Graviton team made a little-endian version of ARM just to allow lazy code like this to migrate away from Intel chips without having to rewrite struct unpacking (& also IBM with the ppc64le).
Early in my career, I spent a lot of my time reading Java bytecode into little endian to match all the bytecode interpreter enums I had & completely hating how 0xCAFEBABE would literally say BE BA FE CA (jokingly referred as "be bull shit") in a (gdb) x views.