4-character literal

[Bill Baxter]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
> 
>> Besides isn't the value of a multi-character literal going to be 
>> dependent on the endianness of the machine you're running on?
> 
> Not really, it just gets flipped when _stored_ on a LittleEndian...
> i.e. the char const 'ABCD' is the same as the hex const 0x41424344
> 
> In arch i386 this would read 44434241 but in arch ppc it's 41424344.
> That is, if you were to store it somewhere or look at the objectfile.
> 
> --anders

Yeh, ok.  I'm thinking of the case where you read in a 4-byte uint 
signature from a file.  If you load it in as a uint, you have to watch 
out for the endianness of the file vs that of the platform you're 
running on.
Or just compare as a sequence of chars rather than uint.
--bb