Why does an 8-bit field have endianness?

Question

See the definition of TCP header in /netinet/tcp.h:

struct tcphdr
  {
    u_int16_t th_sport;         /* source port */
    u_int16_t th_dport;         /* destin         


        

Answer 1

It may help to know that this is code is only run if "# ifdef __FAVOR_BSD". It is from /usr/include/netinet/tcp.h

# ifdef __FAVOR_BSD
typedef u_int32_t tcp_seq;
/*
 * TCP header.
 * Per RFC 793, September, 1981.
 */
struct tcphdr