Good point. I don't do anything with "wide" strings in Perl yet so I usually forget to take that into consideration. But here we are making the strings so we know they'll be byte strings and we can use what I wrote or: length pack "I", 0 to find the number of bytes in an IV.

I thought I had used a "native 32-bit integer" before for endianness testing, but for some reason couldn't think of "L". That certainly makes more sense than resorting to substr. (:

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