[LCP]#defines to know Endianness

[John Navil Joseph]

Yes, linux does define the BYTE_ORDER macro, but it may not be
defined in other operating systems (windows?).

I'm just wondering if C Standard requires this macro to be defined
by all compilers, then I can be sure that mine would be a truly
portable code.

Regards,
John

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:22:18 +1000, Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> wrote:

> On 2004-07-01, John Navil Joseph wrote:
>
>> Is there any predefined macros (#defines like  __cplusplus) that the
>> compiler defines so as to know the endianess of the machine that the
>> compiled code is to run on?
>
> Does Linux not have the BYTE_ORDER macro in <machine/endian.h>?
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