ARM has always been little-endian. Some were configurable endian.
And it's not a hole. We're not about to spend 100 cycles parsing a decimal string that could have been a little-endian binary number, just because you feel a dependency on a certain endianness is architecturally impure. Know what else is architecturally impure? Making binary machines handle decimal.
And it's not a hole. We're not about to spend 100 cycles parsing a decimal string that could have been a little-endian binary number, just because you feel a dependency on a certain endianness is architecturally impure. Know what else is architecturally impure? Making binary machines handle decimal.