You should probably not use this package, because you should avoid using the native byte ordering in programs!

Read this article by Rob Pike before using this package:

https://commandcenter.blogspot.fr/2012/04/byte-order-fallacy.html

You should probably first try to fix the broken code that generates data dependent on the architecture on which it is compiled. Fix it so it always generates code using a fixed byte order. If you can't, see if you can detect the byte order of the data from the data itself.

Go 1.21 has added NativeEndian (see proposal #57237) which serves the same purpose. However that implementation has a bug: you can't use == to compare binary.NativeEndian with either binary.BigEndian or binary.LittleEndian. See #67026 and the proposed fix in CL 581655.

This package doesn't have this bug, and is compatible even with very old versions of Go.

This package only exports a single variable containing the byte order of GOARCH.

See the encoding/binary package for how to use it to read/write a binary data stream.

package endian

import "encoding/binary"

var Native binary.ByteOrder

The implementation is ultra lightweight because it relies on build tags.

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