This is already deployed as of Tiger on Intel.

On Aug 24, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Ken Raeburn via RT wrote:

> We're probably going to be replacing the stash file with a keytab in  
> the not too distant future.
>
> If you're already deploying this code, our conversion code will need  
> to cope with it.
>
> If we want to move stash files between architectures of different  
> byte orders and then convert,
> we should have non-conditionalized code that figures out the stash  
> file's byte order and
> converts as necessary.