Use CFFI, see which of #+little-endian or #+big-endian is enabled. Assume you're not on a nuxi-endian machine. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org “Compulsory apologies mostly train children to say things they don’t mean — that is, to lie.” ― Alfie Kohn, ‘Unconditional Parenting’ 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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