Is there a way to enforce specific endianness for a C or C++ struct?

Question

I\'ve seen a few questions and answers regarding to the endianness of structs, but they were about detecting the endianness of a system, or converting data between the two d

Answer 1

No, there's no such capability. If it existed that could cause compilers to have to generate excessive/inefficient code so C++ just doesn't support it.

The usual C++ way to deal with serialization (which I assume is what you're trying to solve) this is to let the struct remain in memory in the exact layout desired and do the serialization in such a way that endianness is preserved upon deserialization.