Sunday, January 14, 2018

software engineering - Little and big endianness in games


Do we have to worry about byte orders in the process of programming a game? Do game consoles use different byte orders?



Answer



If you're writing networking code, this often is something you have to deal with, yes.


Also it's possible that the byte ordering in a file format is not what your platform uses, so sometimes it matters there too.


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