On 5/1/06, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
> Okay, I'll bite. I assume the "what" you're talking about in the
> sentence above is the platform, either Intel or (older) Mac (and some
> other chips). It appears that the function returns the "first" byte (as
> a character) of the number assigned to the variable "one". I'm not sure,
> but I'm guessing that on an Intel box, it would return a 0, and on a big
> endian platform, it would return a 1. So you might be able to say that
> this function can tell the user the endianness of a box.
>
> But then again, I could be completely wrong. ;-}
You're right! I use it an autoconf replacement I'm writing,
as am_big_endian(). To test the endianness of a system.
It's a lot more reliable than SDL_BYTEORDER, which relies on the
system name for the endianness. which is stupid.
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