Question On Endianness And Solaris Sparc Versus IA32 File Systems

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Thomas Dineen <tdineen@ix.netcom.com> writes:

>    On both Solaris 8 Sparc and Solaris 8 IA32
> machines when I read the same file sequentially
> using getc() and I get different results in byte
> ordering because of the Big Endian (Sparc) versus
> Little Endian (Intel) file system data organization.
> 
>     Question is there any way to automatically
> compensate for this with getc??? Or more obviously
> do I just have to rewrite the software application
> to compensate for this?

As you said, the question is off-topic.  This mailing list is for
questions about the gcc compiler, not for general programming
questions.

You have to write the software to compensate.

Ian