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authorFrancis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2014-12-22 09:53:11 (EST)
committer Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2014-12-22 09:53:39 (EST)
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ich9deblob: fail on big endian systems
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diff --git a/resources/utilities/ich9deblob/ich9deblob.c b/resources/utilities/ich9deblob/ich9deblob.c
index 3fb7240..c12f758 100644
--- a/resources/utilities/ich9deblob/ich9deblob.c
+++ b/resources/utilities/ich9deblob/ich9deblob.c
@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
return 1;
}
+ // endianness check. big endian forced to fail
+ unsigned short steak = 0xBEEF;
+ unsigned char *grill = (char*)&steak;
+ if (*grill==0xBE) {
+ printf("\nunsigned short 0xBEEF: first byte should be EF, but it's BE. Your system is big endian, and unsupported (only little endian is tested)\n");
+ return 1;
+ }
+
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// files that this utility will handle