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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Hints for networking
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Jano <402450@cepsz.unizar.es> writes:

> Must I detect machine endingness manually? Are there helping
> packages for networking in the wild?

I think that there are theoretical circumstances in which it is not OK
to check whether system.default_bit_order is low_order_first
(little-endian) or high_order_first (big-endian), but that has worked
for me on Sparc, Alpha, PowerPC, Intel (GNAT in all cases).