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<Donut> wrote:

>     How to check in C++ program if our applciation running on a
> Big/Little/Bi Endian machine?

There may be a clever way of doing it but I'd use:

WORD binkle=0x1234;

bool IAmBigEndian=( *reinterpret_cast<BYTE *>( &binkle )==0x12 );

>     Is there a generic way of transforming data (which could be in any
> structure) between different endians?

Sortof. You can't easily convert any /structure/ as you'd need to know
the structures layout (the conversion has to be done field by field)
but you can fairly easily write a template function to convert any
numeric value.

Mostly it's either big- or little- so all you have to do is swap the
bytes around. Unfortunately I believe that a third format exists and
might actually be supported by Intel hardware. Years ago when looking
at a unix file system I came across DWORDs stored as:

  <big word><little word>

Where each word was <little byte><big byte>.

..but I've not seen this recently.
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