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Re: Big Endian, Little Endian.         

Group: comp.lang.c++.moderated · Group Profile
Author: Sohail Somani
Date: May 10, 2008 13:08

clemd@acm.org wrote:
> On May 9, 8:25 pm, Le Chaud Lapin gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> What header or compile-time trick allows one to determine the byte-
>> order of target CPU?
>
> Not possible. Depending on the CPU and the memory system, the byte
> order may be dynamic, or it may vary among sections of memory. Or it
> may be "mixed endian" (not strictly big or little), or have no
> endianness.

Wow. Do you have an example?

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