For internal representation there are actually substantial technical
advantages with littleendian notation, despite the fact that it
appears politically incorrect to say so...
-hpa
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981023151556.431A-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Perry Harrington wrote:
> >
> > Not to keep beating a dead horse, but I'd like to solidify the standing
> > of endianess in numbers in /proc. I've already proposed creating generic
> > formatting routines for /proc info, and I think that the output should be
> > big endian for Hex, Binary, and Decimal, as it's significantly easier
> > to read and parse.
>
> I really don't want big endian. I'm used to little endian, and I think
> it's fundamentally wrong to prefer one over the other. So if anything is
> confusing now, it's not getting better by changing the byte order. It
> should just be printed out in a format where byte order doesn't matter.
>
> Linus
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