>Byte swapping is important when transferring data between system that use different order for the sequence of bytes stores in memory. That seems like a glarin

>Byte swapping is important when transferring data between system that use different order for the sequence of bytes stores in memory. That seems like a glaring footgun to me, to the point where I think I must be missing something. What I want when dealing with endianess are "from_little_endian/to_little_endian", "from_big_endian/to_big_endian" function pairs that expand to either nop or a byte swap depending on the host architecture. Exposing the byte swapping directly without this layer on top is asking for trouble because every user will have to make sure that they correctly detect the local endianess before attempting a swap. That's the potentially tricky part, not swapping the bytes.