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Re: little and big endian -- once more [message #15340 is a reply to message #15338]

Wed, 12 May 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Martin Schultz (mgs@io.harvard.edu) writes:

> took me a while to realize that it is the machine architecture not
> the OS that determines the byte swapping -- in fact I needed to have IDL
> on linux (after using it on an SGI and with Windows) to figure that out
> ... Anyway, I now devised the following test for byte swapping which is
> applied in my open_file routine and handles everything transparently.
> Please tell me if there are any other machine architectures that are big
> endian and what their !version.arch tag would be.

Here is a little function, Martin, that will make sure
your code works without having to track every machine
architecture down. Found it on my web page. :-)

Cheers,

David

*****************************************************
FUNCTION Little_Endian

; Returns 1 if Little-Endian, returns 0 if Big-Endian.

little_endian = (BYTE(1, 0, 1))[0]
RETURN, little_endian
END
*****************************************************

David Fanning, Ph.D.
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Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
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		Re: little and big endian -- once more By: Dick Jackson on Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00
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		Re: little and big endian -- once more By: Liam Gumley on Wed, 12 May 1999 00:00
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