Followup to:  <8m34d.186242$%n4.110639@bignews6.bellsouth.net>
By author:    mike@mnmoran.org
In newsgroup: comp.arch.embedded
>
> Fred Viles wrote:
> > "Roman Mashak" <mrv@tusur.ru> wrote in
> >>I'd like to understand how to
> >>determine the endianness from software. 
> > 
> > 
> > one generic way (assuming sizeof(int)>sizeof(char)):
> > 
> > int i=1;
> > if (*(char *)&i)
> >     /* little endian */;
> 
> BOO.
> Beware of optimizer. :-)
> 

If the optimizer optimizes that out, then the optimizer is broken.
However, try:

static volatile uint16_t i = 0x0102;
volatile uint8_t *p = (volatile uint8_t *)&i;

switch ( *p ) {
       case 1:	/* bigendian */ break;
       case 2:  /* littleendian */ break;
       default:	/* wtf */ break;
}

If the optimizer optimizes *THAT* out then napalm your compiler
vendor.

	-hpa

Fred Viles wrote:
> "Roman Mashak" <mrv@tusur.ru> wrote in
>>I'd like to understand how to
>>determine the endianness from software. 
> 
> 
> one generic way (assuming sizeof(int)>sizeof(char)):
> 
> int i=1;
> if (*(char *)&i)
>     /* little endian */;

BOO.
Beware of optimizer. :-)

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"Roman Mashak" <mrv@tusur.ru> wrote in
news:cimifa$2cik$1@mpeks.tomsk.su: 

>...
> I'd like to understand how to
> determine the endianness from software. 

one generic way (assuming sizeof(int)>sizeof(char)):

int i=1;
if (*(char *)&i)
    /* little endian */;
 

Hello, All!

Could you please explain me the process of establishing the endianness on
Alchemy board? This board has the DIP switches for establish endian mode,
and I'd like to understand how to determine the endianness from software.

On-board CPU is MIPS32.

With best regards, Roman Mashak.  E-mail: mrv@tusur.ru