Re: [DotGNU]Endianness?

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Saturday 08 November 2003 08:01 am, Rich Baumann wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:30, HJ wrote:
> > Is it known wether MS.NET is host-endian or little-endian always?
>
> The ECMA spec requires that conforming CLRs always be little-endian.

No it doesn't.  The encoding of programs, when stored in IL binaries, is 
little-endian (you have to pick something for the on-the-wire format).  But 
there are no ECMA-specified endian restrictions on the CLR's data 
representation once the program is loaded.  Restrictions may occur because of 
badly written compilers (e.g. Microsoft's C/C++ compiler), but not because of 
anything that ECMA specifies.

Cheers,

Rhys.