From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T08:40:25+09:00
Subject: Endianess of the underlying platform

Does ruby provide a global or a method call to determine the endianess
of the underlying platform?

This is what I cooked up, but I'm wondering if there is a ruby way of
doing this.


BIG_ENDIAN = [0xFF00].pack('S') == [0xFF00].pack('n')


Blessings,
TwP