On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Simon Burge wrote:

: > > While I do agree with you on that point.. It does seem like there should be a
: > > way to determine the endianess of the machine you are attempting to build for.

: Unfortunately, Tim is trying to determine the endianness of the _target_
: platform and not the host platform (this is in a cross-compile environment).

For NetBSD (and most other 4.4BSD based) targets,

===== CUT - endian-test.i =====
#include <machine/endian.h>
#if BYTE_ORDER == BIG_ENDIAN
#error big endian
#endif
===== CUT - endian-test.i =====

then do:

    if ${CC} -E endian-test.i >/dev/null 2>&1; then
        [...little-endian...]
    else
        [...big-endian...]
    fi

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