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bool	is_big_endian ()
	Determines if your platform is big endian (at compile time). More...

bool	is_char_signed ()
	Determines if your platform char type is signed or otherwise. More...

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bool ecl::is_big_endian ( )

inline

Determines if your platform is big endian (at compile time).

This is a nice function that I found on stack overflow - the best thing about it, is that a good compiler will see that its a const function and thus store it in your program as a constant as well as excluding any code that fails this test (within the usual if/else condition check). Thus, effectively giving it the same power as a macro. Brilliant!

Returns: bool : true if big endian, false otherwise.

Definition at line 38 of file endianness.hpp.

bool ecl::is_char_signed ( )

inline

Determines if your platform char type is signed or otherwise.

This is a useful runtime check, if you need a compile time check, ecl's cmake probling sets a macro in ecl/config/ecl.hpp.

Returns: bool : true if signed, false otherwise.

Definition at line 35 of file char_sign.hpp.

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