TMW Server Collection: tmwserv/src/utils/processorutils.cpp Source File

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00020 
00021 #include "utils/processorutils.hpp"
00022 
00023 bool utils::processor::isLittleEndian;
00024 
00025 void utils::processor::init()
00026 {
00027     utils::processor::isLittleEndian = utils::processor::littleEndianCheck();
00028 }
00029 
00030 bool utils::processor::littleEndianCheck()
00031 {
00032    short int word = 0x0001;     // Store 0x0001 in a 16-bit int.
00033    char *byte = (char *) &word; // 'byte' points to the first byte in word.
00034    return(byte[0]);          // byte[0] will be 1 on little-endian processors.
00035 }