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Re: Testing endianness
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: Testing endianness |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:38:46 -0600 |
On 16-Jan-2004, Paul Kienzle <address@hidden> wrote:
| If ever I need this (and I don't see why I would since
| fread/fwrite deals with endian issues for me), how
| would I use it?
Right, I'm not sure whether it is necessary to have this, but it was a
bit of configuration information that was not available at the
interpreted level of the language.
| Do I need to test both conditions as in the following:
|
| if octave_config_info("words_little_endian")
| do little endian stuff
| elseif octave_config_info("words_big_endian")
| do big endian stuff
| else
| error("not little endian or big endian")
| endif
Right, I wasn't sure what to do. We have both words_big_endian and
words_little_endian in C++, so I just put both in octave_config_info.
If neither are true, I imagine it is a bug. Would it be better to
have a different single value stored in octave_config_info? If so,
what would you like to call it?
jwe
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