From: Tristan Wibberley <twibberley@llamacom.com>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 15:58:03 +0000

Re: libggi not working ...

Christian Reiniger wrote:
> Something like that:
> 
> union
> {
>         int IntPart;
>         char FirstByte;
> } TestEndian;
> 
> TestEndian.IntPart = 0x4711;
> if (TestEndian.FirstByte == 0x11)
>         LittleEndian = true;

But this needs to be done by the preprocessor.

I suppose you call this from the configure script to write to a file
whether the system is big/little endian, and use that in the makefile
with -D

-- 
Tristan