how to find Endianness on HP

[madhavabk]

Hi all,

Is there any command for finding Endianness on HPUX operating systems.

Thanks,
Madhava

[Torsten.]

Hi Madhava,

I found this (C code):

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#include
int endian;

TEST_ENDIAN(endian);

if (endian == 0)
printf("This a little endian system\n");

if (endian == 1)
printf("This a big endian system\n");
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here:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90012/portal.5.html

HTH!

[Alex Lavrov.]

HP-UX and Solaris are big endian operating systems.

Linux and Windows are little endian.

Alex.

[Muthukumar_5]

It is big-endian. However you can change it to little endian.

Newer PA-RISC computers can be either big endian or little endian machines, however the HP-UX operating system is a big endian operating system.

Refer: http://docs.hp.com/en/5990-8172/ch02s10.html The Endian Difference Problem part

You can find endian type with gdb as,

# gdb -q
gdb)show endian
gdb)q
#

hth.