also sprach Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu> [2002.01.22.0132 +0100]: > Shouldn't this be a configure test? I'd imagine that just stuffing > several bytes into an array and then testing the result as a word would > be sufficient. moreover, a PowerPC can be run big or little endian. this *should* be a dynamic test, which is so trivial to write... cat << EOF > is_big_endian.c int main(void) { long l = 0xFF000000; unsigned char *c = &l; return (*c != 0xFF); } EOF gcc -w -o is_big_endian is_big_endian.c ./is_big_endian && echo "i am big endian." -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck no cat has eight tails. a cat has one tail more than no cat. therefore, a cat has nine tails.
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