From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Thomas Koenig  writes:   
   >Anton Ertl  schrieb:   
   >> Thomas Koenig  writes:   
   >>>There is something to be said for at least having a big-endian   
   >>>system around to test programs:  If people mismatch types, there   
   >>>is a chance that it will blow up on a big-endian system and work   
   >>>silently on a little-endian system.   
   >>   
   >> If the only thing wrong with the software is that it does not work on   
   >> big-endian systems, and little-endian has won, is there really   
   >> anything wrong with the software?   
   >   
   >A type mismatch?  I think so.   
      
   If there is really something wrong with the software on little-endian   
   systems, you don't need a big-endian system to find the mistake.   
      
   >> Another widely-used architecture today inherited its byte order from   
   >> the 6502.   
   >   
   >Which one?   
      
   ARM A32, and then T32 and A64.   
      
   - anton   
   --   
   'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'   
     Mitch Alsup,    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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