Re: Endian portability #defines in GLIB

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Manish Singh wrote:

> This was a feature requested by someone on irc, and I think it's good idea.
> 
> Simply put:
> 
> #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
> #define G_BIG_ENDIAN
> #else
> #define G_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> #endif
> 
> in glib.h. WORDS_BIGENDIAN is derived from the built-in autoconf test.

This assumes that the machine is not G_PDP_ENDIAN ;-)

-- Elliot
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