Scroll to navigation
| ENDIANNESS(3) |
Library Functions Manual |
ENDIANNESS(3) |
NAME¶
Endianness - None The BSON specification dictates that the encoding format is in
little‐endian. Many implementations simply ignore endianess altogether
and expect that they are to be run on little‐endian. Libbson supports
both Big and Little Endian systems. This means we use memcpy(3) when
appropriate instead of dereferencing and properly convert to and from the
hoste endian format. We expect the compiler intrinsics to optimize it to a
dereference when possible.
