He's right that you shouldn't use ifdefs, but I think a macro like le32toh() is far clearer and more concise than a bunch of shifts and ors. Also, a lot of com

He's right that you shouldn't use ifdefs, but I think a macro like le32toh() is far clearer and more concise than a bunch of shifts and ors. Also, a lot of comments in this thread have nothing to do with the article and appear to be responses to some invisible strawman.