[Gllug] Pointer arithmetic with void *

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On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Tethys uttered the following:
> 
>>Either write out textual data or use htonl() and friends
> 
> I agree completely. Unfortunately, I didn't design the file format,
> and data is all written as little-endian. On the plus side, it's
> documented as such, so there's no confusion.

Ah, good: I feared that this was some horrid file format whose author
hadn't considered endianness (yes, there are some such: I fix them
whenever I see them, assuming it's possible; having a home directory
NFS-mounted between i586 and UltraSPARC boxes with near-identical
software installed on each helps...)

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