{"id":24949,"date":"2024-03-16T04:07:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T04:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/converting-and-implementing-endianness-in-the-c-language\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T04:59:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T04:59:20","slug":"converting-and-implementing-endianness-in-the-c-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/converting-and-implementing-endianness-in-the-c-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting and implementing endianness in the C language."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In C language, the endianness conversion can be implemented using the following method:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Transforming through the use of a union.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-meta\">#<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">include<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">&lt;stdio.h&gt;<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-class\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">union<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">endian_converter<\/span> {<\/span>\r\n   <span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> i;\r\n   <span class=\"hljs-type\">char<\/span> c[<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">sizeof<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span>)];\r\n};\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">main<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">()<\/span> {\r\n   <span class=\"hljs-class\"><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">union<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">endian_converter<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title\">converter<\/span>;<\/span>\r\n   converter.i = <span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>;\r\n\r\n   <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span>(converter.c[<span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>] == <span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>)\r\n      <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">printf<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Little endian\\n\"<\/span>);\r\n   <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">else<\/span>\r\n      <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">printf<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Big endian\\n\"<\/span>);\r\n\r\n   <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>;\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, we store an integer 1 in the integer type of a union and use the union&#8217;s character array member to check the stored byte order. If the first byte is 1, it indicates storage in little-endian byte order; otherwise, it indicates big-endian byte order.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Convert using bitwise operations:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-meta\">#<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">include<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">&lt;stdio.h&gt;<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">main<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">()<\/span> {\r\n   <span class=\"hljs-type\">unsigned<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> num = <span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>;\r\n   <span class=\"hljs-type\">char<\/span> *ptr = (<span class=\"hljs-type\">char<\/span>*)&amp;num;\r\n\r\n   <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">if<\/span>(*ptr == <span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>)\r\n      <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">printf<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Little endian\\n\"<\/span>);\r\n   <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">else<\/span>\r\n      <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">printf<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Big endian\\n\"<\/span>);\r\n\r\n   <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-number\">0<\/span>;\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In this example, we convert the address of an integer 1 to a character pointer and determine the byte order by checking the value of the byte that the pointer points to. 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