Robust detection of endianness at compile time.

[Nick Maclaren]

Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
>
> In that case, you may interested in the decimal floating point work
> > which has been put into gcc and some new Intel and PowerPC
> processors.  This is floating point which uses base 10.

Yes, I already know about that.  Their representation is such that
decoding the endianness would be no harder than for IEEE 754.

It can get a lot harder than THAT!


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Nick Maclaren,
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