[cfe-dev] Tracking variable endieness at compile time (C language)

[James Dennett via cfe-dev]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Nikodemus Siivola via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> A solution requiring no compiler support is to wrap the little endian
> values in a struct.
>
> template<typename T>
> struct little_endian {
>     little_endian(T value) : _value(value) {}
>     T _value;
>     T convert() {
>        // conversion here
>     }
> };
>
>
That requires a lot more compiler support than C gives you ;-)   (The need
for C wasn't explicit in the message body, I think, but it's in the subject
line.)

-- James
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