On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:23:51PM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 03:03:33PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > What can go wrong with endian.h and using
> > #if __BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN
> > ?
> What could go wrong is that the system must have been broken for
> quite some time without anyone noticing ot some other additional
> mecanism in place. However the Byteordercheck is already RFSed and
> waits for a sponsor.
On glibc system you _must_ use endian.h to get the endianess. Also
Debian does not support any other libc, so not much of a choice there.
Bastian
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