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+#pragma once
+
+/**
+ * GNU and FreeBSD have various ways to express the
+ * endianess but none of them is similiar enough. This
+ * will create two defines that allows to decide on the
+ * endian. The following will be defined to either 0 or
+ * 1 at the end of the file.
+ *
+ * OSMO_IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+ * OSMO_IS_BIG_ENDIAN
+ *
+ */
+
+#if defined(__FreeBSD__)
+#include <sys/endian.h>
+ #if BYTE_ORDER == LITTLE_ENDIAN
+ #define OSMO_IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN 1
+ #define OSMO_IS_BIG_ENDIAN 0
+ #elif BYTE_ORDER == BIG_ENDIAN
+ #define OSMO_IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN 0
+ #define OSMO_IS_BIG_ENDIAN 1
+ #else
+ #error "Unknown endian"
+ #endif
+#else
+#include <endian.h>
+ #if __BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN
+ #define OSMO_IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN 1
+ #define OSMO_IS_BIG_ENDIAN 0
+ #elif __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN
+ #define OSMO_IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN 0
+ #define OSMO_IS_BIG_ENDIAN 1
+ #else
+ #error "Unknown endian"
+ #endif
+#endif
+