Re: Endianness in PHP
| From: | Johannes Schlüter | Date: | Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:05:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Endianness in PHP | ||
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On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 13:50 +0200, Pierre Joye wrote:
> 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.
... that's why our compile time defines are fine and should be used.
johannes