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Subject: Re: Examining individual bytes of an integer
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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:

> (I have become very sensitive to endianness problems because my daily
> work involves writing Ada programs targeted to big-endian SPARC
> machines, but tested initially on little-endian PCs.)

My favourite was the BE system with a BE interface card to an LE network
protocol .. the interface card was only interested in the 16-bit message
header components, so it converted *the whole packet* as if it only
contained 16-bit values. Which it didn't.