Hi, Jonathan Dowland: > It's less important which endian they pick, but that they pick one and use it consistently across arches. > The advantage of using big-endian data on a little-endian system is that you actually have a chance of finding mis-swapped and/or mis-sized items. I do admit that I've stared at too many m68k hexdumps (in an earlier life) to ever become comfortable with LE data. ;-) -- -- Matthias Urlichs