Re: architectures, endianness
On Sep 29, David Coe wrote:
> Do we have a table/chart somewhere that explains which
> Architectures use which endianness? Gpart has incomplete
> support for endianness, the beginnings of which are
> implemented as shown below; it behaves as if only i386
> and alpha are little-endian --is that true?
At least on Linux, use /usr/include/endian.h to determine the
machine's __BYTE_ORDER (which will be __LITTLE_ENDIAN, __BIG_ENDIAN or
__PDP_ENDIAN). Thus there's no need for architecture testing...
Chris
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