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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Preprocessor code to figure out endianness ?
Message-ID: <OTTO.90Sep9235213@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 9 Sep 90 21:52:13 GMT
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I seem to remember seeing somewhere a real smart preprocessor construction
to figure out the endianness of the machine under which the code was being
compiled.  I cannot remember where and how, though ?  Any pointers ?
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