Endianness in DEX File Description Should be a Calculated Endianness

[thekief]

I am new to this format so please excuse potential misunderstandings with regard to the syntax of the format.

I know it is rather picky but Android's DEX file format also allows a big-endian encoding [1] besides the standard little-endian encoding.

If I understand it correctly, the format descritption shown in the Format Gallery [2] defaults the it to little endian. I would suggest that the endianness is using a calculated endianness rather than the defaulted one.

I will look into providing a solution but I am not sure if I get to a proper solution without some help.

[1] https://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/dex-format#endian-constant
[2] https://formats.kaitai.io/dex/

[armijnhemel]

I have never seen a big endian DEX file and I am not sure if these even exist, see also this comment from one of the Android developers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9462422