C Program to check Little or Big Endian machine

Endianness is the order or sequence of bytes of a word data. Endianness is of two types

• Big-Endian (BE) – stores the most significant byte of a word at the smallest memory address and the least significant byte at the largest
• Little-Endian (LE) – stores the least-significant byte at the smallest address

 $ vim check_endian.c 

#include <stdio.h>
 
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
        int num = 1;
        if(*(char *)&num == 1) {
                printf("\nLittle-Endian\n");
        } else {
                printf("Big-Endian\n");
        }
}

 $ gcc -o check_endian check_endian.c 

 $ ./check_endian