The snide, unhelpful response to this question might be this: Why do you care, big or little?
That you care indicates you are doing something you shouldn't do. Of course, sometimes you are forced to do something you shouldn't do because somebody else has already done something he shouldn't do. On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 10:53 AM 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 > “Compulsory apologies mostly train children to say things they don’t mean — > that is, to lie.” ― Alfie Kohn, ‘Unconditional Parenting’ > > > 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 > > > > -- > > Marco Antoniotti, Professor tel. +39 - 02 64 48 79 01 > > DISCo, Università Milano Bicocca U14 2043 http://dcb.disco.unimib.it > > Viale Sarca 336 > > I-20126 Milan (MI) ITALY >
