Big endian and little endian

[danielmccarthy]

Hi,
My question is if you wrote a program such as

#include <stdio.h>
 int main()
{
  unsigned short a;
  a = 0xfff4;
 printf("%x", &a);
 }

then compiled it with a little endian compiler, then it won't work correctly on a big endian machine right? it would need to be recompiled for their machine because I am setting it as it is rather than taking it in from an input? so it needs to be written to the executable in the correct order?

[Cubbi]

First, you have to fix the error: you cannot call printf with arguments of the wrong type, regardless of platform:

test.c:6:15: error: format specifies type 'unsigned int' but the argument has
      type 'unsigned short *' [-Werror,-Wformat]
 printf("%x", &a);
         ~~   ^~
1 error generated.

(and if you switch to something appropriate, such as printf("%p", &a), the behavior isn't platform-dependent)