Notes of a Developer

[mkamhawi]

C code to check your system's endianness

/* if you don't know what is "Endianness", here is a wikipedia article about the topic: Endianness */

#include <stdio.h> int main(){     unsigned short s = 0x0001;     unsigned char c;     /*point to 's' using a char pointer, then dereference it, this will access the first byte of 's' and copy it to 'c'.*/     c = *(unsigned char *) &s;

    if(c == 0x01){         printf("this is a little endian system.\n");     }else{         printf("this is a big endian system.\n");     }     return 0; }