Is there a one line macro definition to determine the endianness of the machine? I am using the following code but converting it to macro would be too long:
unsigned char test_endian( void )
{
int test_var = 1;
unsigned char *test_endian = (unsigned char*)&test_var;
return (test_endian[0] == 0);
}
Code supporting arbitrary byte orders, ready to be put into a file called order32.h
:
#ifndef ORDER32_H
#define ORDER32_H
#include <limits.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#if CHAR_BIT != 8
#error "unsupported char size"
#endif
enum
{
O32_LITTLE_ENDIAN = 0x03020100ul,
O32_BIG_ENDIAN = 0x00010203ul,
O32_PDP_ENDIAN = 0x01000302ul, /* DEC PDP-11 (aka ENDIAN_LITTLE_WORD) */
O32_HONEYWELL_ENDIAN = 0x02030001ul /* Honeywell 316 (aka ENDIAN_BIG_WORD) */
};
static const union { unsigned char bytes[4]; uint32_t value; } o32_host_order =
{ { 0, 1, 2, 3 } };
#define O32_HOST_ORDER (o32_host_order.value)
#endif
You would check for little endian systems via
O32_HOST_ORDER == O32_LITTLE_ENDIAN