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| From | James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Union test for endianess |
| Date | 2011-06-17 10:31 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 06/17/2011 10:13 AM, Bhasker Penta wrote:
> On Jun 17, 6:52�pm, James Kuyper <jameskuy...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> On 06/17/2011 09:32 AM, James Kuyper wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> been unable to locate it again. Big-endian and little-endian were
>>> overwhelmingly the most common orders, but the two orders that were next
>>> most common would set ch[] to {0x34, 0x12, 0x78, 0x56} or {0x56, 0x78,
>>> 0x34, 0x12}.
>>
>> Correction: the second one should have been {0x56, 0x78, 0x12, 0x34}.
>> --
>> James Kuyper
>
> Nice info.
> About the snippet, according to you, is the code platform dependent
> even if one is reading from unsigned char members?
Of course - the purpose of the code is to produce platform dependent
behavior: it's supposed to report whether or not the platform is
big-endian or little-endian. While the code, as written, does not
correctly perform that test, the test it does perform is also platform
dependent.
--
James Kuyper
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Re: Union test for endianess Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-06-19 16:24 -0700
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Re: Union test for endianess Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-06-19 15:52 -0700
Re: Union test for endianess James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-06-17 09:32 -0400
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Re: Union test for endianess James Waldby <not@valid.invalid> - 2011-06-22 21:42 +0000
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Re: Union test for endianess falk@rahul.net (Edward A. Falk) - 2011-06-17 20:50 +0000
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Re: Union test for endianess "Morris Keesan" <mkeesan@post.harvard.edu> - 2011-06-19 21:14 -0400
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Re: Union test for endianess Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-06-19 16:14 -0700
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