01 may 2021 @ justine's web page One of the most challenging topics in the C / C++ programming language is how to handle endianness properly. There's a surprising amount of depth here. I've been programming in C for a while and I feel like I keep learning about this subject, even when I thought I'd seen it all. Let's say we want to deserialize a 32-bit integer off the wire, using code that'll work on machines like IBM's s390x mainframes (one of the few big endian chips still in play). Here's th...