The Old New Thing

A question about endian-ness turns out to be the wrong question

December 26, 2012 Dec 26, 2012 12/26/12

Raymond Chen

Via a customer liaison, we received what seemed like a simple question: "How can I detect whether a Windows machine is big-endian or little-endian?" You could actually answer this question (say by coughing up a code fragment that stores a 16-bit value to memory and then takes it apart into bytes to see how it got stored, or by simply hard-...