Rob Pike • 4/4/2012

The byte order fallacy

The article argues that directly checking a system's native byte order (endianness) is a common fallacy in programming. It asserts that the computer's byte order is irrelevant for processing external data streams. Instead, developers should write portable, endianness-agnostic code that explicitly handles the byte order of the data itself, providing clear examples for extracting both little-endian and big-endian integers.

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#low-level programming #data serialization #Portability