From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-11-16T21:37:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Endianess of the underlying platform

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On 11/15/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
>
> 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.



Kinky. Is it a bug, or a hack intended to make PowerPCs look like Intel
chips?

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