From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-11-16T06:19:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Endianess of the underlying platform

On Oct 24, 2006, at 4:40 PM, 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')

Beware, some versions of ruby shipped with OS X have a broken pack  
where the endianness is swapped.

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