From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-01-20T17:11:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9590] Re: Fast, loose, and out of control

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:9572] Re: Fast, loose, and out of control"
    on 01/01/20, "Conrad Schneiker" <schneik@us.ibm.com> writes:

|What is the recommended Ruby way to determine whether you are (or a 
|particular thread is) running on a big-endian or little-endian CPU?

Only way I can think of is

  [1].pack("I") == [1].pack("N")

							matz.