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Re:Stop Memsetting Structures by cardiffspaceman on Saturday April 27, 2019 @09:17PM (#19768696)
And you're not writing code for big-endian machines to interoperate with little-endian machines.

It's easy to write binary protocol code that way but it isn't portable.

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Re:Stop Memsetting Structures by jdblair on Sunday April 28, 2019 @04:51PM (#19773608)
It goes without saying that you have get the endian right when you store the values. That's what the endian macros are for.
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