Re: [Pmk-users] Detecting endian ness issues

[Damien C. <mip...@us...>]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> I think you missed the point. The above is a valid test for endian ness,
> but I'm more interested in knowing how the detected endinaness is
> represented in the resulting config.h file.
> 
> If it is represented as the presense or absense of a #define then it is
> wrong.
> 
> It must represented like this for big endian:
> 
>     #define    WORDS_BIGENDIAN     1
>     #define    WORDS_LITTLEENDIAN  0
> 
> and this for little endian:
> 
>     #define    WORDS_BIGENDIAN     0
>     #define    WORDS_LITTLEENDIAN  1

The result is that the HW_BYTEORDER tag is set to one of the three 
following values:
LITTLE_ENDIAN
BIG_ENDIAN
UNKNOWN_ENDIAN

Then everybody is able to transform this information in respect to their 
need.

Damien