The snide, unhelpful response to this question might be this:
Why do you care, big or little?
That you care indicates you are doing something you shouldn't do.
Of course, sometimes you are forced to do something you shouldn't do because somebody else has already done something he shouldn't do.
On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 10:53 AM Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:
Use CFFI, see which of #+little-endian or #+big-endian is enabled. Assume you're not on a nuxi-endian machine.
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On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 12:04 PM Marco Antoniotti marco.antoniotti@unimib.it wrote:
Hello everybody,
I am in a rabbit hole (don't ask!), and I need to drag some other people
with me.
What is the consensus about the most portable way to detect the
endianness of a machine/platform? (Ok, we can assume that while running on an ARM the endianness is "fixed" by the OS)
All the best
MA
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