>>>>> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:

> Isn't there a symbol that the compiler defines differently for
> big/little endian?

I don't know about the compiler, but glibc's header files define
__BYTE_ORDER. I've attached a solution that was tested on GNU/Linux,
but should also work on BSD.

> No big endian testing?

Not yet.

> No need for the copyright notice,

O.K.

"Take 3" of the patch is attached.

Best regards
Ulrich