On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>> This sort of thing is inherently a non-portable problem like
>> detecting endianness and other such things. It is unlikely any
>
>Detecting endianness isn't hard to do portably. I did it about 20 years ago,
>in COBOL, when coding for a Honeywell mini. The owners didn't know whether it
>was beg or little..
>
>Map an area as int and as char[]. Set it =1 and see where the value's stored.
Ok, bad example. There are many other examples of things though
that are non-portable, and that was my main point... Besides,
there are more endian's than just big and little. There is
"VAX_ENDIAN", and I've read of others too that are oddball. I
have an email or text document somewhere on this but I don't
remember where. It might have been the comp.lang.c FAQ...
TTYL
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