Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Mar 1999 22:44:22 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order |
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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Cort Dougan wrote: > > }Mixing endianness on the fly is certainly possible, but stupid unless > }you have some REALLY good reason for it. And quite frankly, there are > > You'd argue that running LE on machines with mostly LE devices isn't a > good technical reason? Even if the overhead of swapping (an instruction > for it) isn't too large it certainly would make things cleaner.
No, I'm arguing AGAINST using BE.
I know there are folks out there who like BE, but let's just face it: the PC platform is LE, and will stay so. Going to mixed-mode just because misguided people like the old BE format is not an option I am willing to entertain.
The computing world would be better off with just one byte order, that byte order isn't going to be BE.
Linus
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