clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> One more thing that bugs me is that standards /still/ don't provide a
> straightforward way to detect the byte ordering of the standard integer
> data types (unless I missed some recent news).

You can detect it at runtime, but it's impossible to detect it at
compile time. (Yes, I have researched it. It's just not possible.)

(Ok, I'm not 100% certain that the runtime trick is 100% standard
kosher, but it works in all relevant modern hardware.)

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                                                          - Warp

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