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Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess
Date 2014-09-14 22:05 +0100
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:31:31 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>
>> I just write in C. With some 
>> machines you have to re-write code because of the machine's endianess. That 
>> might only be with assembley and old assemblers I don't know.
>
> That depends on how the code is written. With C chances are high, because
> it does not offer any means to handle endianness nor to declare types in a
> machine-independent way. But I guess people like C mostly for its
> deficiencies.

What means do other languages offer to handle endianness?

-- 
Ben.

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gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-13 21:41 -0400
  Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-09-14 09:14 +0200
    Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-14 15:31 -0400
      Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-09-14 21:38 +0200
        Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-09-14 22:05 +0100
          Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-09-15 09:40 +0200
            Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-09-15 11:51 +0100
              Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-09-15 13:49 +0100
              Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-09-15 17:16 +0200
                Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-09-15 22:23 +0100
                Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-09-16 10:44 +0200
                Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-09-16 00:18 +0000
          Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2014-09-15 06:18 -0500
        Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-15 14:23 -0400
          Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2014-09-15 21:08 +0200
            Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-15 19:32 -0400
          Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-09-15 21:07 +0100
            Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-15 21:48 -0400
  Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2014-09-15 10:57 +0200
  Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-09-15 14:06 +0100
    Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-15 21:50 -0400
      Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-09-17 09:54 +0100
        Re: gcc-4.x.x and endianess "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-09-17 22:29 -0400

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