> I seem to remember it being able to attach a big-endian or little-endian > label to any individual variable (rather than a type), which could be a > scaler rather than a struct. So it was a bit more flexible than gcc.
Well, the only thing I see in the documentation for "Byte Ordering" is the reference to pragma Pack and the __packed__ keyword for structures, which can toggle byte ordering by means of the byte-swap argument: "#pragma pack [ ([[max_member_alignment] , [min_structure_alignment][, byte-swap ]] ) ] The pack directive specifies that all subsequent structures..." with the same limitation as GCC about taking the address: "It is not possible to take the address of a byte-swapped member." -- Eric Botcazou
