I've read that post and I agree. I can only speculate that they designed the API that way either because of premature optimisation - saving the underlying binary from potentially having to swap the byte order - or out of laziness and an assumption that it's easy to read four bytes into an int in whatever programming language is used.
Chris On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 06:56:38AM +1000, Rob Pike wrote: > I know the use of native byte order didn't come from you, but that's > lazy and wrong. > > https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/04/byte-order-fallacy.html > > -rob > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:12 AM, Wojciech S. Czarnecki <o...@fairbe.org> > wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:51:25 +0200 > > Christian von Kietzell <chris...@vonkietzell.de> wrote: > > > >> [*1] The data comes from a web browser extension using the native > >> messaging API, which specifies that messages sent to external programs > >> are prefixed with the 32-bit length of the message in native byte order. > > > > I understand that 'native bo' in this context means 'remote client side > > endianess'. If so the safest way is to parse incoming request headers, > > guess byte order from that and tag data as appropriate. > > > > If it meant just local2local (local browser talking over lo/pipe) > > may simply compile endianess variants according to GOARCH. > > > > https://godoc.org/go/build#hdr-Build_Constraints > > > > -- > > Wojciech S. Czarnecki > > << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "golang-nuts" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Nothing to see here. Move along. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
