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+## message with invalid endianness tag
+
+BYTE 'i'
+BYTE 1
+BYTE 0
+BYTE 0
+
+LENGTH Header
+LENGTH Body
+
+HEADER_FIELD INTERFACE
+TYPE STRING
+STRING 'org.freedesktop.Foo'
+HEADER_FIELD MEMBER
+TYPE STRING
+STRING 'Bar'
+HEADER_FIELD PATH
+TYPE OBJECT_PATH
+OBJECT_PATH '/foo'
+
+ALIGN 8
+END_LENGTH Header
+
+START_LENGTH Body
+END_LENGTH Body