[Animl-develop] [animl - Open Discussion] Endian attribute in the Creon proposal

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By: choconutdancer

I'd like to recommend that we not have a endian flag.  Doing so will require
ALL software that wants to read the file to be able to read BOTH types of endian
data.  Every reader software is guaranteed to have to write a conversion routine
for the opposite endian.  Specifying a single endian will mean that a software
package will only have to support reading one endian format.  Little endian
(Intel) is probably the most common.


Even if you have a machine cpu with the opposite endian you will still only
need to support a single format and not two.  (An opposite endian machine would
still have to support a conversion whether there was an endian flag or not).
But at least you're not forcing EVERY piece of software that wants to read the
data to support BOTH endian types.


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