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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:

> Making a comment on my own post:
>
> On 11-12-20 21:38 , Niklas Holsti wrote:
>> On 11-12-20 02:38 , Randy Brukardt wrote:
>>>
>>> Not at all. My understanding is that virtually all recent processors are
>>> little-endian (and all of the new processors in common use).
>>
>> My Ada code was originally written for big-endian SPARC workstations and
>> needed porting to little-endian Intel PCs. I believe the SPARC is still
>> an actively developed architecture.
>
> ... but I just learned that the newer SPARCs are "bi-endian" and able
> to run in either big- or little-endian mode. So little-endian is
> gaining, which may in the end make little-endian record representation
> clauses portable, in practice. Good if that happens.

The same is I believe true of PowerPC and ARM. But it really depends on
the OS - and the peripherals! Dealing with a LE-designed peripheral vs a
BE processor/OS was fun.