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Structured data which is transferred using a memory read or write (for
example, a struct stat) is expected to be in a protocol-specific format
with all scalar multibyte datatypes being big endian. Translation to
this representation needs to be done both by the target before the F
packet is sent, and by GDB before
it transfers memory to the target. Transferred pointers to structured
data should point to the already-coerced data at any time.