Comment by IshKebab

I completely disagree.

> As a general rule, the new semantics tend to match the behavior of the old semantics on little-endian targets.

They've basically said that bit casting is going to be little endian. This simplifies things for the 100% of people that are on little endian machines, while making the code still work for the 0% of people (rounded to the nearest 0.0000001%) that are using big endian machines.