> :  Besides, I would think that converting to little endian would be common
> : enough that it merits a special function?
> 
> That's the reason bswap was invented.  See the FFS_EI stuff for which Manuel
> put in these functions.
But bswap does something on all platforms.  I want a function that is
a no-op on little endian and does a bswap on big endian.  It would
be nice to have a standard name for it.

   -- Lennart