calling all ports: what is your endianness?

["Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca>]

Hi,

I just uploaded new Boost (www.boost.org) C++ libraries to sid, and
discovered that they have this buried inside the headers:


#if defined(__sparc) || defined(__sparc__) || defined(__powerpc__) || defined(__ppc__) || defined(__hppa) || defined(_MIPSEB)
#define BOOST_BIG_ENDIAN
#elif defined(__i386__)
#define BOOST_LITTLE_ENDIAN
#else
#error The file boost/detail/limits.hpp needs to be set up for your CPU type.
#endif


This has already tripped up the alpha autobuilder.  

If your favourite architecture is NOT listed in the above, could you
please send me:

  1. a preprocessor symbol to test for, and
  2. the correct endianness.

Thanks a bunch,
-Steve

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