bionic (3) bson_endianness.3.gz

NAME

       bson_endianness - Endianness

       The BSON specification dictates that the encoding format is in little-endian. Many implementations simply
       ignore endianness altogether and expect that they are to be run on little-endian. Libbson  supports  both
       Big  and  Little Endian systems. This means we use memcpy() when appropriate instead of dereferencing and
       properly convert to and from the host endian format. We expect the compiler intrinsics to optimize it  to
       a dereference when possible.

AUTHOR

       MongoDB, Inc

COPYRIGHT

       2018, MongoDB, Inc