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Re:A review of endianness bugs in Qt, and how they were fixed by alfanick on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:50AM (#25611573)
s/compiles to/may or may not compile to/
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Re:A review of endianness bugs in Qt, and how they were fixed by amelius on Saturday January 02, 2021 @10:05AM (#25613246)
Exactly. You might not be so lucky on a different platform.

Imho a better way to handle this would be to use a macro or special function that comes with the compiler, assuming it exists of course.

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