Re: Endianness in PHP
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:50:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Endianness in PHP | ||
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2010/8/12 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@php.net>:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 11:42 +0100, Melanie Rhianna Lewis wrote:
>> You can easily detect endianness as follows:
>>
>> Either:
> [...]
>
> Please don't reinvent the wheel. As said in my other mail we have a
> compile time constant for this already.
>
> And yes, for all circumstances a compile time value isn't enough.
> Thinking about cross-compiling and MacOS's binaries which support
> PowerPC and Intel architectures but using the provided constants gives a
> consistent behavior.
But we don't support universal binaries.
Cheers,
--
Pierre
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