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29 lines
795 B
C
29 lines
795 B
C
/* Big-Endian systems save the most significant byte first. */
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/* Sun and Motorola processors, IBM-370s and PDP-10s are big-endian. */
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/* "Network Byte Order" is also know as "Big-Endian Byte Order" */
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/* for example, a 4 byte integer 67305985 is 0x04030201 in hexidecimal. */
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/* x[0] = 0x04 */
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/* x[1] = 0x03 */
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/* x[2] = 0x02 */
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/* x[3] = 0x01 */
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/* Little-Endian systems save the least significant byte first. */
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/* The entire Intel x86 family, Vaxes, Alphas and PDP-11s are little-endian. */
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/* for example, a 4 byte integer 67305985 is 0x04030201 in hexidecimal. */
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/* x[0] = 0x01 */
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/* x[1] = 0x02 */
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/* x[2] = 0x03 */
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/* x[3] = 0x04 */
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int big_endian(void)
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{
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union {
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long l;
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char c[sizeof(long)];
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} u;
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u.l = 1;
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return (u.c[sizeof(long) - 1] == 1);
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}
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