[GRASS5] Endian tests

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 3 04:58:46 EDT 2005


lib/gis/endian.c uses:

int G_is_little_endian (void)    
{
    union
    {
        int testWord;
        char testByte[4];
    } endianTest;
    
    int swapFlag;

    endianTest.testWord = 1;
    
    if (endianTest.testByte[0] == 1)
    {
        swapFlag = 1; /*true: little endian */
    }
    else
    {
        swapFlag = 0; /* false: big endian */
    }
    return swapFlag;
}



should that be:

-        char testByte[4];
+        char testByte[sizeof(int)];


??


Hamish




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