mcs/class/corlib/System/BitConverter.cs

   1 // Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
   2 // The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
   3 // See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.
   4
   5 using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
   6
   7 namespace System
   8 {
   9         public static partial class BitConverter
  10         {
  11                 [Intrinsic]
  12                 public static readonly bool IsLittleEndian;
  13
  14                 static BitConverter ()
  15                 {
  16                         unsafe {
  17                                 ushort i = 0x1234;
  18                                 byte *b = (byte*)&i;
  19                                 IsLittleEndian = (*b == 0x34);
  20                         }
  21                 }
  22         }
  23 }