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charcircuit 34 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end impr...

Generally those edge cases are always the same endianness. You don't need big and little endianness versions of the structures. What's important is that everyone agrees on the same thing.

nextaccountic 34 days ago [–]

There are some cursed data formats where something is little endian in some places, big endian in other places

Generally speaking though the types you handle in business logic (what your application actually do) shouldn't have any endianness

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