24 Jul
2004
24 Jul
'04
4:02 p.m.
"John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote in message news:037801c4716d$6d3c9f80$d6390252@fuji...
I think this one has come up before: in general there is no way tell what the endianness is without doing a runtime test,
It would be nice to have a header that does a runtime test in debug mode to make sure the macro is properly defined.
there's also the problem that there are more than two orderings possible, for example for 4 byte types the byte ordering could be any of:
1 2 3 4 4 3 2 1 2 1 4 3 3 4 1 2
Really? I only knew of machines with 2 orderings. What machines use the others? Andrei