Re: Big Endian, Little Endian.

Sohail Somani wrote:
> clemd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>> On May 9, 8:25 pm, Le Chaud Lapin <jaibudu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> What header or compile-time trick allows one to determine the
>>> byte- order of target CPU?
>>
>> Not possible. Depending on the CPU and the memory system, the byte
>> order may be dynamic, or it may vary among sections of memory. Or
>> it may be "mixed endian" (not strictly big or little), or have no
>> endianness.
>
> Wow. Do you have an example?

You will find that some hardware is switchable, or that the endianness
of integers and floats are not the same, or that the endianness is not
at the byte level.  :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness



Bo Persson



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