[Vm-dev] VM endianness

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Clément,

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Clément Bera <bera.clement at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> Is there a primitive or a parameter that I can call from the image to know
> the endianness of the processor / VM ?
>

Amazingly no (well it surprised me, anyway).  Squeak has an elaborate
BitBlt-based scheme for calculating it.  But in Spur we know adoptInstance:
between bit objects will work so we can do the following:
| f |
f := BoxedFloat64 new.
f at: 1 put: 1; at: 2 put: 1.
ByteArray adoptInstance: f.
f first = 1 ifTrue: [#little] ifFalse: [#big]

-- 
best,
Eliot
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