Preprocessor code to figure out endianness ?

[John Keck]

In article <28803:Sep1221:34:1690 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> [...]
>
>int hilo_magic = 1212958796; char *hilo = (char *) &hilo_magic;
>
>hilo[0]hilo[1] is "HL" on machines that place the high byte first and
>"LH" on others. It even works on sixteen-bit machines, provided the
>compiler reduces 1212958796 to 18508.
>
>---Dan

As long as they use the ASCII character set.


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