#x100 will generally do it for me, for the past 50 years. Reads back as a 2-byte stream as 00 01 on little-endian, and 01 00 on big-endian.
But yes, ARM is like Intel, little endian. - DM > On Feb 4, 2024, at 10:03, Marco Antoniotti <marco.antonio...@unimib.it> wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I am in a rabbit hole (don't ask!), and I need to drag some other people with > me. > > What is the consensus about the most portable way to detect the endianness of > a machine/platform? (Ok, we can assume that while running on an ARM the > endianness is "fixed" by the OS) > > All the best > > MA > > -- > Marco Antoniotti, Professor tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01 > DISCo, Università Milano Bicocca U14 2043 http://dcb.disco.unimib.it > <http://dcb.disco.unimib.it/> > Viale Sarca 336 > I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY
