alt Hacker NewsI have some places in some software where I assume little endian for simplicity, and I just leave in a static_assert(std::endian::native == std::endian::little) to let future me (or future someone else) know that a particular piece of code must be modified if it is ever to run on a not-little-endian machine.
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delduca • yesterday at 9:59 PM
Another good another call. Thank you.
In an ideal world you could just write endian-independent code (i.e. read byte by byte) and leave the compiler optimizer to sort it out. This has the benefit of also not tripping up any alignment restrictions.