[M3devel] Getting IsLittleEndian as a Modula-3 CONST

[Dragiša Durić]

My first idea (very fast&dirty) was

CONST
  BigEndian = LOOPHOLE(1, ARRAY[0..7] OF BITS 8 FOR [0..255])[0] = 0;

But this is not constant expression, so says cm3 :).

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Dragiša Durić
dragisha at m3w.org



On May 26, 2013, at 8:47 PM, Rodney M. Bates wrote:

> I know this can be done using m3makefiles and the build system, but I
> am hoping someone can point to a place where it already exists.  I need
> a Module-3 CONST that tells endianness of the machine we are running
> on, that is available to code in m3core.

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