I think something like this might work: Prelude GHC.Exts GHC.Word> let W64# x = 0x100000002 in W32# (unsafeCoerce# x) 2
You should get 1 for big-endian and 2 for little-endian. (Disclaimer: not particularily well-tested.) -- ryan On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Mauricio <briqueabra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there some way I can check the endianness > of the machine my haskell code is running in? > > Thanks, > Maurício > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe