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		gpderetta on Nov 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Three new utility functions in C++23 The std::endian enum makes it very easy to find the native endianness.

a1369209993 on Nov 10, 2022 [–]

That's irrelevant, because there's nothing useful you can do with the native endianness (other than implement (load/store)_(big/little)_N for various combinations of options).

gpderetta on Nov 10, 2022 | [–]

you can use it to implement native_to_be or native_to_le, it seems pretty useful to me. In fact, what can't it do?

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