Does D support middle endianness?

The only reference I found was this thread from 11 years ago: https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.1953.1380926372.1719.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com I'd argue that if there aren't many middle endian architecture, it'd be worth not supporting them, in exchange for only having to deal with two byte orders (rather than all possible permutations), so the specification should mandate that either LittleEndian or BigEndian be set to true.

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Re: Does D support middle endianness?

Posted by H. S. Teoh
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H. S. Teoh

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 02:46:03AM +0000, Valentino Giudice via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> The only reference I found was this thread from 11 years ago: https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.1953.1380926372.1719.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com
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> I'd argue that if there aren't many middle endian architecture, it'd be worth not supporting them, in exchange for only having to deal with two byte orders (rather than all possible permutations), so the specification should mandate that either LittleEndian or BigEndian be set to true.

What is a middle endian architecture?  First time I've heard of it.


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