[gdal-dev] Get Image Endianness

[Frank Warmerdam]

Alejandro Mostovoi wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I need to know the image endianness.
> I search for in api's help and list but can't find anything.
> 
> Any idea?

Alejandro,

As mentioned by others the on-disk endianess varies by format and sometimes
by file in a format.  The endianess of data returned by the GDAL API is always
local machine order. So if you read a big endian file on a little endian
system, the RasterIO() calls will return the data to the application in little
endian byte order.

Best regards,
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