Matchbox 0.2

byteorder

Return an integer identifying the system's byte order. Byte order, also known as endianness, describes how a system arranges the bytes of a multi-byte value.

Signature

func byteorder() int

Parameters

byteorder does not accept any parameters.

Return Value

Value Byte Order
0 Little-endian
1 Big-endian

Example

var order = byteorder()
print(order)

On a little-endian system, the example writes 0 to standard output. On a big-endian system, it writes 1.