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+#pragma once
+#include "foundation/types.h"
+#include "foundation/endian.h"
+/* this is separated out to processor-specific types for a few reasons 
+
+1) Unaligned writes are fast/easy on x86, slow on some platforms (ARM, x64), very slow on a few (Itanium) and crash on others (PowerPC)
+2) ARM is very good at *ptr++, x86 is very good at ptr[offset]
+3) Endian issues
+*/
+typedef struct ByteWriter
+{
+	uint8_t *data;
+	size_t data_length;
+	size_t offset;
+} ByteWriter, *nu_bytewriter_t;
+
+/* --------- Construction & Utility --------- */
+#define BYTEWRITER_INIT(data, length) { (uint8_t *)data, length, 0 }
+
+inline static uint32_t bw_bytes_written(nu_bytewriter_t bw)
+{
+	return bw->offset;
+}
+
+/* --------- Little Endian writers --------- */
+inline static void bytewriter_fourcc_string(nu_bytewriter_t bw, const char *fourcc)
+{
+	bw->data[bw->offset] = fourcc[0];
+	bw->data[bw->offset+1] = fourcc[1];
+	bw->data[bw->offset+2] = fourcc[2];
+	bw->data[bw->offset+3] = fourcc[3];
+	bw->offset += 4;
+}
+
+inline static void bytewriter_uint32_le(nu_bytewriter_t bw, uint32_t value)
+{
+	*(uint32_t *)(&bw->data[bw->offset]) = value;
+	bw->offset+=4;
+}
+
+inline static void bytewriter_uint16_le(nu_bytewriter_t bw, uint16_t value)
+{
+	*(uint16_t *)(&bw->data[bw->offset]) = value;
+	bw->offset+=2;
+}
+
+/* --------- Big Endian writers --------- */
+inline static void bytewriter_uint32_be(nu_bytewriter_t bw, uint32_t value)
+{
+	*(uint32_t *)(&bw->data[bw->offset]) = _byteswap_ulong(value);
+	bw->offset+=4;
+}
+
+inline static void bytewriter_uint24_be(nu_bytewriter_t bw, uint32_t value)
+{
+	bw->data[bw->offset] = (uint8_t)(value >> 16) & 0xFF;
+	bw->data[bw->offset+1] = (uint8_t)(value >>  8) & 0xFF;
+	bw->data[bw->offset+2] = (uint8_t)value & 0xFF;
+	bw->offset+=3;
+}
+
+inline static void bytewriter_uint16_le(nu_bytewriter_t bw, uint16_t value)
+{
+	*(uint16_t *)(&bw->data[bw->offset]) = value;
+	bw->offset+=2;
+}
+
+/* --------- Neutral Endian writers --------- */
+inline static void bytewriter_uint32_zero(nu_bytewriter_t bw)
+{
+	*(uint32_t *)(&bw->data[bw->offset]) = 0;
+	bw->offset+=4;
+}
+
+inline static void bytewriter_uint32_nzero(nu_bytewriter_t bw, uint32_t num_zeroes)
+{
+	memset(bw->data, 0, num_zeroes*4);
+	bw->offset+=num_zeroes*4;
+}
+
+inline static void bytewriter_uint8(nu_bytewriter_t bw, uint8_t value)
+{
+	*(uint8_t *)&bw->data[bw->offset] = value;
+	bw->offset++;
+}