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."
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