Re: calling all ports: what is your endianness?
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 07:22:48PM -0500, "Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca> was heard to say:
> 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.
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.
Am I being naive?
Daniel
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