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Thanks everyone for the very insightful answers! Learned a bunch again. :)

In this particular case I don't need to worry about the endianness, it's more of an "artistic" approach to see the individual bytes. :) But I can certainly see Niklas' point with different systems.

I was also reading about the memory overlays, those that Matt described, but it was mentioned to be a bit dangerous, if one makes writes with it and is not careful about the correct sizes of source and target. 

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Type_System#Overlays