endians

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Mon Nov 28 16:09:38 PST 2005


The honourable and venerable Bill Campbell spoke thus:
> 
> You can get this from the command line with ``perl -V:byteorder``
> which returns byteorder='1234'; on a little-endian machine.

Works like a gem testing on iNTEL and Sparc.  Thanks for that tidbit,
Bill.  Quite handy.  Archive-worthy.

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