[erlang-questions] sub-byte endianness in bit syntax

[Bob Ippolito]

It takes a few seconds to figure this out yourself:

1> <<A:2/little, B:2/big, _:4>> = <<2#10100000>>, {A, B}.
{2,2}

On 8/15/07, Tony Finch <dot@REDACTED> wrote:
> I can't find anything in the documentation that describes the order in
> which the bits of a byte are used up by a sequence of sub-byte segments in
> the bit syntax. For big-endian data, like the standard IP header example,
> it makes sense to fill in bytes most significant end first, whereas for
> little endian data you should fill them least significant end first. These
> conflict if you append big and little endian bit strings - which would be
> mad, but I can't spot anything that says this causes an error.
>
> Tony.
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