Does ruby provide a global or a method call to determine the endianess
of the underlying platform?
This is what I cooked up, but I'm wondering if there is a ruby way of
doing this.
BIG_ENDIAN = [0xFF00].pack('S') == [0xFF00].pack('n')
Blessings,
TwP
Does ruby provide a global or a method call to determine the endianess
of the underlying platform?
This is what I cooked up, but I'm wondering if there is a ruby way of
doing this.
BIG_ENDIAN = [0xFF00].pack('S') == [0xFF00].pack('n')
Blessings,
TwP
you could at least have more fun
little_endian = [42].pack('i')[0] == 42
;-)
Does ruby provide a global or a method call to determine the endianess
of the underlying platform?
This is what I cooked up, but I'm wondering if there is a ruby way of
doing this.
BIG_ENDIAN = [0xFF00].pack('S') == [0xFF00].pack('n')
Kinky. Is it a bug, or a hack intended to make PowerPCs look like IntelDoes ruby provide a global or a method call to determine the endianess
of the underlying platform?
This is what I cooked up, but I'm wondering if there is a ruby way of
doing this.
BIG_ENDIAN = [0xFF00].pack('S') == [0xFF00].pack('n')
Beware, some versions of ruby shipped with OS X have a broken pack
where the endianness is swapped.
chips?
Bug. It was fixed in a later OS update, IIRC.
Eric said:Yes. Apple cross-compiled ruby from Intel to PPC and Ruby assumes the
source and target architectures have the same endianness.
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