[issue4376] Nested ctypes 'BigEndianStructure' fails

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

> But if you set raw memory to let's say b'\0\0\0\1',
> when you look at the c_int value afterwards, won't it
> be different on little endian and big endian machines?

A big endian structure is supposed to read and write memory in the... big endian order, not in the host endian.

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