While we're at it, perhaps we should also presume little-endian byte order. As much as I prefer big-endian, little-endian had won. As consolation, big-endian w

While we're at it, perhaps we should also presume little-endian byte order. As much as I prefer big-endian, little-endian had won. As consolation, big-endian will likely live on forever as the network byte order.