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to know about endianness, please refer to my earlier posts…
Little, Big endianess explained
Little, big endianess explained - part2

here is the snippet for finding endianness…

 
//returns zero for little endian
//returns 1 for big endian
//otherwise some error occured
int find_endianness()
{
  int x = 0x01 ;
  if (* (char *) &x == 1)
  {
    //little endian
    return 0;
  }
  else if (*((char *)&x+sizeof(int)-1)==1)
  {
    //big endian
    return 1;
  }
  else
  {
    //could not find what we have written in that byte
    return -1;
  }  
 
  return 0;
}

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