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Re:Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code? by its_nikita on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:07PM (#27298160)
Yeah I was kind of confused about this when I was reading through the spec trying to figure out what went wrong. I wanted to touch on this in the blog post, but I wasn't able to find a good resource explaining the advantage for mixing endianness in a file format.
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Re:Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code? by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @10:01PM (#27298520)
Because the important thing about those fields is that they aren't really big endian at all, they're clearly ASCII characters. Why the spec you have decided to say they were big endian is beyond me.
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Re:Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code? by cratermoon on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:14PM (#27298212)
Because Microsoft.
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Re:Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code? by imoverclocked on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:39PM (#27298385)
Well IBM+Microsoft but really... because 90s and x86.
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