From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2012-02-23T13:54:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:42829] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #6065] Allow Bignum marshalling/unmarshalling from C API

2012/2/23 Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org>:

> I think your proposal also rely on machine endianness because
> it use "long" type.
>
> I guess bytes in long type (4 bytes or 8 bytes in usual) is
> native endian.  Am I wrong?

Oops.  [ruby-core:42813] describes "where each of the longs
hemselves should probably be in the same order".

I think unsigned long should be used only for native endian.
unsigned char should be used instead for big- or little- endian data.
-- 
Tanaka Akira