That's true but at the end of the day it's fine as long as you aren't using those constructs for serialization/deserialization of data between machines. Rob Pik

That's true but at the end of the day it's fine as long as you aren't using those constructs for serialization/deserialization of data between machines. Rob Pike has a very good post about how Plan 9 needed no endian specific #defines: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/04/byte-order-fallacy.html?m=1 https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/04/byte-order-fallac...