Re: Help: How to determine big/little endian?

doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor -FT-~)
Thu, 17 Aug 1995 03:26:05 GMT

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From: doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor -FT-~)
Keywords: C, architecture, comment
Organization: Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ
References: <4074ig$nh7@masala.cc.uh.edu> <CLIFFC.95Aug10172002@crocus.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 03:26:05 GMT

If the C standard specified a flag or pair of flags that the
compiler would set to indicate whether the target architecture
was big- or little-endian, that would be a big help.


So, how about it, GNU and ANSI ? Let's see __BIGEND__
and __LITTLEEND__ incorporated into the standards.
Thanks.
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Dennis O'Connor doconnor@sedona.intel.com
i960(R) Architecture and Core Design
[How often in otherwise platform independent code do you really need to know
the byte order? I've almost always been able to program around it without
much trouble. -John]
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