Little_endian data on a big_endian platform?

[Joe Buck]

> I have an application that is being ported to a Solaris/SPARC platform.
> This application interacts with other system processes and generates data
> that is transmitted over the network to other platforms that are not
> BIG_ENDIAN format.  Based on the information I have been given about the
> client-server components, they were not built to pass platform independent
> data formats on the network (for unknown historic reasons).  Are there
> options (commandline or build) with the compiler that would allow it to do
> the byte swapping on the data segment but not on the machine code so that
> the application could be built to interact with the existing LITTLE_ENDIAN
> network clients.

No, there are no such options.  You'll need to add code that does the
appropriate byte-swapping.