[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 79, Issue 19

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Thu Apr 26 17:59:37 CEST 2018


On Thursday, 26 April 2018 01:27:59 PDT Jason H wrote:
> Nah. Big endian is the way to go. Just because one company made little
> endian prevelant isn't good enough. Network byte order is big endian, and
> when looking at hex dumps, the bytes appear in the order that you expect to
> see them... Which is why I think the big endian deadline was chosen. You're
> sending data with QDataStream, network byte order is the right order. The
> bits keep getting more significant, right to left, rather than zig zagging
> right to left then over to the right for the next byte.

I'll insert <sarcasm> around your text and assume you meant it.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center






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