Big endian or Little endian

How will you find whether your system is following Big endian or Little endian representations. Write C code. In Little endian, the lowest byte is stored in lowest address.

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saikamal

Jan 31st, 2016

The best way to check whether CPU follows little endian or big endian :
main()
{
int var=1;
char*p=&var;
if(*p==1)
printf("Little endian
");
else
printf("Big endian
");
}
NOTE:
size of all pointers are same but the main difference comes when you fetch the data back using specified data types.Here char*p holding the address of integer variable.so if cpu follows little endian then 1 will be present in lower address as char * will fetch only 1 byte.Simple...!!!