Portability Function Attribute: @portable

[Chris Williams]

On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 23:06:46 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I think the problem here is there's too many functions that 
> would need to be marked it to be useful and it isn't a big 
> enough deal for most libs to bother.

I think the larger issue would be that the same people who 
understand when code would be endian-unsafe are the same ones who 
would try to write endian-safe code. People who don't know any 
better wouldn't know enough to mark their function unsafe.