Hello gopher's,

I have simple go program which convert slice of one type to slice of other 
type using go generics for handling all the supported types.
Below is the code snippest for this:
package main

import "fmt"
import "unsafe"

type slice struct {
        ptr unsafe.Pointer
        len int 
        cap int 
}

func Slice[To, From any](data []From) []To {
        var zf From
        var zt To
        var s = (*slice)(unsafe.Pointer(&data))
        s.len = int((uintptr(s.len) * unsafe.Sizeof(zf)) / 
unsafe.Sizeof(zt))
        s.cap = int((uintptr(s.cap) * unsafe.Sizeof(zf)) / 
unsafe.Sizeof(zt))
        x := ([]To)(unsafe.Pointer(s))
        return x
}
func main() {
        a := make([]uint32, 4, 13) 
        a[0] = 1 
        a[1] = 0 
        a[2] = 2 
        a[3] = 0 
        // 1 0 2 0
        b := Slice[int64](a)
        //Expecxted : []int64[]{0x00000000 00000001,  0x00000000 00000002}
        //Got: []int64{0x00000001 00000000, 0x00000002 0000000}
        if b[0] != 1 { 
                fmt.Printf("wrong value at index 0: want=1 got=0x%x \n", 
b[0])
        }
        if b[1] != 2 { 
                fmt.Printf("wrong value at index 1: want=2 got=0x%x\n", 
b[0])
        }

}

This is working fine on little endian architectures(amd64,arm64 etc), but 
when i run on big endian machine(s390x) it is not working , it is resulting 
wrong data
//Expecxted : []int64[]{0x00000000 00000001,  0x00000000 00000002}
 //Got: []int64{0x00000001 00000000, 0x00000002 0000000}
Can somepoint point me how do we write such scenario which should work on 
both little/endian platforms.
Any leads on this?

Thanks,
Srinivas

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