From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 94 05:50:31 PST
To: solovay@math.berkeley.edu (Robert M. Solovay)
Subject: Magic money not working bigendian
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Robert M. Solovay writes:
 > Is there a simple way to find out if ones computer is big-endian or
 > not? [Like a simple C program that one can compile and run to settle
 > the question.]

Perhaps I can redeem myself by doing the cypherpunk thing and writing
code:

int isBigEndian()
{
	int test = 0;
	char *testP = (char *) &test;

	*testP = 0xff;

	return !(test & 0xff);
}

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