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Monday, March 15, 2010

Big Endian or Little Endian

a c-program to find the endians of a processor?

answer:

unsigned int i = 0xabcdefgh;

unsigned char *pc = (unsigned char *) &i;

if (*pc == 0xgh) {
/* little endian */
} else {
/* big endian */
}

posted by yetanother.softwarejunk # 9:40 AM

Comments:

https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/sum2003/cmsc311/Notes/Data/endian.html

# posted by

yetanother.softwarejunk : 10:02 AM, March 15, 2010

union foo {
unsigned short int i;
unsigned char a[2];
}

i=0xabcd;
print a[0];

# posted by

yetanother.softwarejunk : 9:41 AM, March 19, 2010

1 #include
2
3 int main(){
4 int x = 1;
5 if ( *((char *)&x) == 1)
6 printf("Little endian\n");
7 else
8 printf("Big endian\n");
9 }

# posted by

Anonymous : 5:47 AM, February 13, 2011

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