Std::mem::transmute returns different values between architectures

This code returns different answers between different architectures. Are these correct ?

I want this code to return same answer despite any architecture. Do I miss something?

Returns on x86_64-linux-gnu (Little endian):

length: 4
val: 204 187 170 0
length: 8
val: 255 238 221 204 187 170 0 0

Returns on powerpc-linux-gnu (Big endian, 32-bit):

length: 4
val: 0 170 187 204
length: 8
val: 0 0 170 187 204 221 238 255

I (cross-)compiled the code on a x86-64 machine and ran on each machine.
Cross compiler was built like following:

# rust
git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/rust.git
cd rust
./configure --target=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
make
make install

# cargo
git clone https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo
git submodule update --init
./.travis.install.deps.sh
./configure --local-rust-root=/usr/local \
make
make install

cd ~/.cargo
echo '[target.powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu]\n\
linker = "powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc"' > config

Thank you.

As I can guess, this is quite correct behavior, as you shift your view on integer types to an array of bytes, and underlying bytes are ordered differently for big- and little-endian machines, that is it just reflects real bytes order, and it's quite logical for me.

You need to decide whether you want the result in your vec to be big-endian or little-endian. If you choose little endian you can use u32::to_le to make sure your integer is in little-endian byte order before you transmute. There are also to_be, from_le and from_be which might be helpful.

Thank you for your replies. I could understand the behavior of the function.

Here is some background:
I'm writing code using std::hash::sip, in which std::mem::transmute is used. The code works well on a x86-64 but doesn't on a PowerPC. I'll recheck my code to get it works fine.

Again, thank you for your help!