Akshully, CFFI gets the information from trivial-features.

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On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 1:52 PM Faré <fah...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Use CFFI, see which of #+little-endian or #+big-endian is enabled.
> Assume you're not on a nuxi-endian machine.
>
> —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org
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>
>
> On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 12:04 PM 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
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