Re: Help: How to determine big/little endian?

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From: Frank DENIS (Jedi/Sector One)
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 11:28

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You might try something like :

   short a = 0x1234;
   
   if (*((char *) &a + sizeof(short) - 1) == 0x34)
     type = BIG_ENDIAN;
   else
     type = LITTLE_ENDIAN;

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