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(I mean it just seems obvious you would catch more bugs given the format of big-endian, right?... it comes directly from the dual of one of the not-really-a-ben
by saurik 5y ago
(I mean it just seems obvious you would catch more bugs given the format of big-endian, right?... it comes directly from the dual of one of the not-really-a-benefits of little-endian: how you can cast between pointers of different integer types without moving the pointer.)
- agent327 5y agoI'm totally onboard with casting integers, and I can understand casting between pointers-to-char and pointers-to-other, but why on earth would you want to cast between pointers to (different) integers? That seems like asking for trouble, for no benefit I can discern...