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Re: Determining machine endian-ness [message #12214 is a reply to message #12161]

Tue, 07 July 1998 00:00

Mike Schienle
Messages: 37
Registered: May 1997

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Is there a way to determine whether the machine on which
IDL is executing is
big endian or little endian? I am trying to read a data
file which I know
contains little-endian data. I need to byte swap this
data if IDL is running
on a big-endian machine, but not byte-swap if it is
running on a little-endian
machine.

Thanks to all the replies from someone who did not make the request. I
walked in today to a question in my inbox asking about the endian of my
system so some data could be generated. Good timing folks!

Mike Schienle

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		Determining machine endian-ness By: rivers on Mon, 29 June 1998 00:00
		Re: Determining machine endian-ness By: reuss on Wed, 08 July 1998 00:00
		Re: Determining machine endian-ness By: Mike Schienle on Tue, 07 July 1998 00:00
		Re: Determining machine endian-ness By: Kelly Dean on Mon, 06 July 1998 00:00

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