Robust detection of endianness at compile time.

[Nick Maclaren]

Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com> wrote:
>
> I can't remember which flavor OSF/1 used on the MIPS.  Same as Ultrix,
> no doubt.  I don't remember what ultrix used, either. Probably same as
> Vax...oh yeah. ;-)

Mixed endian.  That was the system that caused me to abandon dabbling
with compiler flags and to do the job properly.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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