In the comment discussion of an old unanswered question, a fellow user is claiming that the C long int type “accesses memory in big endian mode“.

I apologize beforehand for my lack of experience, but the statement seems highly suspect. I was not able to find any information corroborating this via a brief Google excursion either.

At most this might be a specific compiler optimization technique, but it seems unlikely that this behavior would be strictly specified in the language design itself.

Please advise.