[Oorexx-devel] Getting an ENDIAN flag set in the build.

[Rick M. <obj...@gm...>]

I'm reworking the code that flattens and saves the program image.  Part of
this process is construction of a version header that let's the interpreter
know if this is a valid image or not.  The details of this header have been
somewhat platform-specific, and I'd like to make it part of the portable
code kernel.  There are really 3 factors that determine whether a saved
program can be used on a particular system:  1)  The image version number
(easy to handle), 2) the platform word size (we're already setting a
__REXX64__ #define in our header files...that one is easy), and finally 3)
the "endian" nature of data on the platform.   #3 is the one we don't have
yet.  I see autoconf has a test for ENDIANness (
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html) that can be used,
but I've not figured out the magic incantations yet for getting that stuff
to work.  David, any chance you could find a few minutes to add this so that
an appropriate value is set for the non-Windows platforms?

Rick