But that's the point: No one spends a day futzing around with endianness, and there are in fact functions for swapping endianness. You can just call them, no ne

But that's the point: No one spends a day futzing around with endianness, and there are in fact functions for swapping endianness. You can just call them, no need to hide the swap in a pointer cast expression to a type that has the dereferencing operator overloaded.