On Fri, 2016-06-10 at 15:38 -0400, Joseph Brennan wrote:
> Look out for big-endian and little-endian, too. That affects
> databases.
> This bit us once when we copied a berkeley db from solaris to linux.
> Endian-ness is based on the cpu hardware, but apparently Macs and
> most hardware used for Linux (like Intel) are both little-endian-- so
> it is probably not the answer in this case.
>
Has to be an implementation difference in that case, e.g UTF-8 vs ASCII
or somebody decided that using an int was wasteful and used a short
instead.
> This is a nice test I found:
> echo -n I | od -to2 | awk '{ print substr($2,6,1); exit}'
>
> 1 little-endian
> 0 big-endian
>
Very nice indeed. Thanks for posting it.
Martin
