endianness in app (excel, server) vs over the socket

[sdementen]

On the conversion from XL to bytes socket stream, is it correct to say the encoding is in big endian while on Intel the data is in little endian ? if so, is there a reason to do this conversion and not to stay in little endian over the socket ? Or can this be choosen in some way (in the INI file per XLLOOP server) ?

sebastien

[poidasmith]

Hi. Yes, you are correct, the xlloop addin is fixed to be big endian. There is currently no way to change this via config. The choice was largely driven by networking standards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Endianness_in_networking. Do you see any issues with the endianness?