Comment by elehack
8 hours ago
Yes. In little-endian, the difference between short and long at a specific address is how many bytes you read from that address. In big-endian, to cast a long to a short, you have to jump forward 6 bytes to get to the 2 least-significant bytes.
Wow, I've been living life assuming that little endian was just the VHS of byte orders with no redeeming qualities whatsoever until today. This actually makes sense, thank you!