Re: [PECL-DEV] Endianness in PHP

[email protected] (Johannes Schlüter)
Newsgroups php.pecl.dev
Organization php.net
Message-ID <1281613726.974.34.camel@guybrush>
Hi,

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 11:42 +0100, Melanie Rhianna Lewis wrote:
> You can easily detect endianness as follows:
> 
> Either:
[...]

Please don't reinvent the wheel. As said in my other mail we have a
compile time constant for this already.

And yes, for all circumstances a compile time value isn't enough.
Thinking about cross-compiling and MacOS's binaries which support
PowerPC and Intel architectures but using the provided constants gives a
consistent behavior.

johannes
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