Bloomberg interview question
-How would you write a program to detect processor endianness?
Interview Answer
Anonymous
Sep 20, 2010
Number = byte3 byte2 byte1 byte0 little endian - byte0 byte1 byte2 byte3 nig endian - byte3 byte2 byte1 byte0 unsigned int i = 1; char *p; if ( (*(char *)&i)) == 1) little endian else big endian