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Created July 23, 2019 18:45
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Code to check endian-ness of the system
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endian.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
unsigned int i = 1;
char *c = (char*) &i;
if (*c)
printf("Little endian\n");
else
printf("Big endian\n");
return 0;
}
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