Endian check for a Mac - help requested
Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at cs.otago.ac.nz
Wed Sep 29 01:23:19 UTC 2004
"David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> asked:
Could somebody with a Mac (big endian machine)
please evaluate the following
{ SmalltalkImage current endianness . Float nan at: 1 . Float nan at: 2 }
Answer:
#(#big 2146959360 0)
In principle, knowing the order of bytes within a word _still_ leaves you
ignorant of whether the word order for a double matches the byte order for
a word. There have been machines where that was a serious issue, but I
don't know if Squeak runs on any such.
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