pa_endianness.h

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#ifndef PA_ENDIANNESS_H
#define PA_ENDIANNESS_H
/*
 * $Id$
 * Portable Audio I/O Library current platform endianness macros
 *
 * Based on the Open Source API proposed by Ross Bencina
 * Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Phil Burk, Ross Bencina
 *
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 *
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 */

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 * the PortAudio community also makes the following non-binding requests:
 *
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 */

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#endif /* __cplusplus */

/* If this is an apple, we need to do detect endianness this way */
#if defined(__APPLE__)
    /* we need to do some endian detection that is sensitive to harware arch */
    #if defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN__)
       #if !defined( PA_LITTLE_ENDIAN )
          #define PA_LITTLE_ENDIAN
       #endif
       #if defined( PA_BIG_ENDIAN )
          #undef PA_BIG_ENDIAN
       #endif
    #else
       #if !defined( PA_BIG_ENDIAN )
          #define PA_BIG_ENDIAN
       #endif
       #if defined( PA_LITTLE_ENDIAN )
          #undef PA_LITTLE_ENDIAN
       #endif
    #endif
#else
    /* this is not an apple, so first check the existing defines, and, failing that,
       detect well-known architechtures. */

    #if defined(PA_LITTLE_ENDIAN) || defined(PA_BIG_ENDIAN)
        /* endianness define has been set externally, such as by autoconf */

        #if defined(PA_LITTLE_ENDIAN) && defined(PA_BIG_ENDIAN)
        #error both PA_LITTLE_ENDIAN and PA_BIG_ENDIAN have been defined externally to pa_endianness.h - only one endianness at a time please
        #endif

    #else
        /* endianness define has not been set externally */

        /* set PA_LITTLE_ENDIAN or PA_BIG_ENDIAN by testing well known platform specific defines */

        #if defined(WIN32) || defined(_WIN32) || defined(__WIN32__) || defined(__NT__) || defined(LITTLE_ENDIAN) || defined(__i386) || defined(_M_IX86) || defined(__x86_64__)
            #define PA_LITTLE_ENDIAN /* win32, assume intel byte order */
        #else
            #define PA_BIG_ENDIAN
        #endif
    #endif

    #if !defined(PA_LITTLE_ENDIAN) && !defined(PA_BIG_ENDIAN)
        /*
         If the following error is raised, you either need to modify the code above
         to automatically determine the endianness from other symbols defined on your
         platform, or define either PA_LITTLE_ENDIAN or PA_BIG_ENDIAN externally.
        */
        #error pa_endianness.h was unable to automatically determine the endianness of the target platform
    #endif

#endif


/* PA_VALIDATE_ENDIANNESS compares the compile time and runtime endianness,
 and raises an assertion if they don't match. <assert.h> must be included in
 the context in which this macro is used.
*/
#if defined(NDEBUG)
    #define PA_VALIDATE_ENDIANNESS
#else
    #if defined(PA_LITTLE_ENDIAN)
        #define PA_VALIDATE_ENDIANNESS \
        { \
            const long nativeOne = 1; \
            assert( "PortAudio: compile time and runtime endianness don't match" && (((char *)&nativeOne)[0]) == 1 ); \
        }
    #elif defined(PA_BIG_ENDIAN)
        #define PA_VALIDATE_ENDIANNESS \
        { \
            const long nativeOne = 1; \
            assert( "PortAudio: compile time and runtime endianness don't match" && (((char *)&nativeOne)[0]) == 0 ); \
        }
    #endif
#endif


#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif /* __cplusplus */
#endif /* PA_ENDIANNESS_H */