From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-10-25T09:43:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Endianess of the underlying platform

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Tim Pease wrote:

> 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

you could at least have more fun

   little_endian = [42].pack('i')[0] == 42

;-)

-a
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