
Hi, I'm curious what the status for endian/byte order support in Boost is (namely, detecting system byte order and swapping between byte orders)? I did a quick search of the include dir and it seems that Spirit has some endian support, though I haven't found any documentation. There's also boost/detail/endian.hpp which has detection of the endian-ness, but doesn't provide any structure for switching between endians/byte-orders. I also found endian.h in predef, which appears to do something similar to boost/detail/endian.hpp. Searching through the list, there were at least 2 different proposals for Boost.Endian (a few years ago), though as far as I can tell neither of these implementations were formally adopted into Boost. I couldn't find any reason why they weren't included.