Re: Big endian machines
  By: Bo Simonsen to All on Thu Jan 15 2004 02:06 am

 > Could someone please give me a advice of what I should keep in mind,
 > then I won't to write Endian-less software?

I would recommend storing integers on disk in ASCII rather than binary. A
32-bit integer stored as 8 hex characters will take up twice the storage space
as the binary equivalent, but it will have no endian issues.

If you are going to store integers on disk in binary (for storage or
performance reasons), then you will need to use intelligent macros to convert
to/from the native integer format for some platforms.

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