FreeTDS Development Group

[Mark Schaal <mark AT champ.tstonramp.com>]

> 
> > 
> > Mark,
> > 
> > Is HW_BIG_ENDIAN a good way to check if we need to do a memcpy or use a
> > cast?  If memory serves, Alpha tends not to like unaligned access as well
> > and is little endian.  Does anyone know if there is a way to determine
> > alignment boundries? (I think perl does this during its config). Is
> > there an autoconf macro to do this that we should be checking for?
> > 
> > Brian

Perl does it this way:


struct foobar {
        char foo;
        double bar;
} try;
int main()
{
        printf("%d\n", (char *)&try.bar - (char *)&try.foo);
}


Mark
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