Re: little endian & big endian

[Urban Widmark]

On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Leung Yau Wai wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> 
>       Many people will feel I very strange since I would like to know
> the system endianess.  Since I am working JNI so I need to concern about
> it.  So, I think I can determine it from the System property class!  But
> it is hard to know the endianess of all JAVA porting platform!
> 

You could let the JNI part of your program try to detect endianness:

        char tmp[2];
        short *s = (short *) tmp;
        tmp[0] = 0xaa;
        tmp[1] = 0xbb;
        if(s == 0xbbaa)
                ;       /* little, x86 etc */
        else
                ;

Any errors in the code above is the result of my brain not functioning
properly at this time of day ...

/Urban

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