Endian check for a Mac - help requested

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Tue Sep 28 22:53:45 UTC 2004


On Sep 29, 2004, at 12:48 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:

>
> Could somebody with a Mac (big endian machine) please evaluate the 
> following
> and let me know what you get? I'm trying to finalize a FloatTest and 
> want to
> make sure it's going to work on little endian and big endian boxes.
>
>   { SmalltalkImage current endianness . Float nan at: 1 .  Float nan 
> at: 2 }
>
> On a little endian box, I get:
>
>   #(#little 4294443008 0)

I get:

  #(#big 2146959360 0)

Avi




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