Read / write int 8 / 16 / 32 / 64 / 128 functions
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In low-level code one sometimes has to read or write integers that may be unaligned, may be big endian, little endian or native. Could functions for this be provided? The non-native ones are non-trivial.
IMO the language itself should provide these as intrinsics but until then..
A reinterpret_cast isn't sufficient: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/issues/269
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