#ifndef BIGEND_H #define BIGEND_H // Big-Endian systems save the most significant byte first. // Sun and Motorola processors, IBM-370s and PDP-10s are big-endian. // for example, a 4 byte integer 67305985 is 0x04030201 in hexidecimal. // x[0] = 0x04 // x[1] = 0x03 // x[2] = 0x02 // x[3] = 0x01 // Little-Endian systems save the least significant byte first. // The entire Intel x86 family, Vaxes, Alphas and PDP-11s are little-endian. // for example, a 4 byte integer 67305985 is 0x04030201 in hexidecimal. // x[0] = 0x01 // x[1] = 0x02 // x[2] = 0x03 // x[3] = 0x04 int big_endian(void); #endif