Hi Marcel, With regard to checking for endianess. I don't think there's anything built in NativeCall that directly determines this, but hopefuly the following should do it, without resorting to a C compiler.
use NativeCall; sub little-endian returns Bool { my $i = CArray[uint32].new: 0x01234567; my $j = nativecast(CArray[uint8], $i); say sprintf("j[0]:%x j[3]:%x", $j[0], $j[3]); $j[0] == 0x67; } say "little-endian:" ~ little-endian; I've only tested this on a little endian architecture. Source: I ported the 'C' answer to this SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12791864/c-program-to-check-little-vs-big-endian On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Marcel Timmerman <mt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Thanks for your answer. I was thinking in perl6, I should have been more > explicit. At the moment I am converting Num to a float representation in > my > BSON module and was wondering if there where easier ways and maybe faster > too. > > Regards, > Marcel > > > > > > > --- Forwarded message --- > From: Marcel Timmerman <mt1...@gmail.com> > Date: April 11, 2016 8:28:22 PM > Subject: Re: Union > To: Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> > > Hi > Thanks for your answer. I was thinking in perl6, I should have been more > explicit. At the moment I am converting Num to a float representation in my > BSON module and was wondering if there where easier ways and maybe faster > too. > > Regards, > Marcel > > > > >