Bitwise operators and “endianness”

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Endianness only matters for layout of data in memory. As soon as data is loaded by the processor to be operated on, endianness is completely irrelevent. Shifts, bitwise operations, and so on perform as you would expect (data logically laid out as low-order bit to high) regardless of endianness.

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