Which .Net-compatible architectures are not little-endian?

Question

The BitConverter class has a field IsLittleEndian which, according to the documentation:

Indicates the byte order (\"endianness\") in which data is st

Answer 1

If you're MSIL you don't get that guarantee.

Even if it's true for all current architectures, you have no guarantee I don't port .NET to Alpha or PDP11 tomorrow.