@whitequark Also, just think of how bitshifting works on a little endian machine.

If I have 0xFF 0x00 in memory then shift the whole thing left by 4, it turns into 0xF0 0x0F. Like, wtf? Sure, in proglangs it doesn't affect things as much but that's just because shit gets constantly swapped in the backend to account for LE's insanity