Comment by ddddfdohvsyknn

I sympathize with the authors pain and understand what they are striving for though I also don't have clear cut solution in mind. A lot of blood sweat and tears are expelled for compatibility amongst things that for the most part are not that important or interesting, because they are a trivial data transformation. The choice of calling convention, endianness, data layout. Imagine if an engineer's design could only work if a specific thread handedness was specified for each screw. It feels like a problem that could be solved with something better, but there's a "leaky" aspect that has to be addressed. Sometimes a uintX is a number with ordinal and/or arithmetic properties and sometimes it's a bit field where every bit has a semantic meaning.