CODEWITHSUNDEEP
cendianness
user4222086
user4222086

Reputation:

Testing big endian without real big endian processor

I want to test my c code for big endian on Windows (On x86-64). How can we do this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2603

Answers (1)

GoBusto
GoBusto

Reputation: 4788

Assuming that you don't have any actual big-endian hardware to hand, your best bet is to use a virtual machine such as QEMU to emulate a big-endian architecture such as SPARC or PowerPC.

You'll then need to install a suitable operating system on your VM - perhaps Debian would suit your needs.

Upvotes: 6

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