tep_is_bigendian - Man Page

Get / set the endianness of the local machine​.

Synopsis

#include <event-parse​.h>

enum tep_endian {
        TEP_LITTLE_ENDIAN = 0,
        TEP_BIG_ENDIAN
};

int tep_is_bigendian(void);
bool tep_is_local_bigendian(struct tep_handle *tep);
void tep_set_local_bigendian(struct tep_handle *tep, enum tep_endian endian);

Description

The tep_is_bigendian() gets the endianness of the machine, executing the function​.

The tep_is_local_bigendian() function gets the endianness of the local machine, saved in the tep handler​. The tep argument is the trace event parser context​. This API is a bit faster than tep_is_bigendian(), as it returns cached endianness of the local machine instead of checking it each time​.

The tep_set_local_bigendian() function sets the endianness of the local machine in the tep handler​. The tep argument is trace event parser context​. The endian argument is the endianness:

        TEP_LITTLE_ENDIAN - the machine is little endian,
        TEP_BIG_ENDIAN - the machine is big endian​.

Return Value

The tep_is_bigendian() function returns non zero if the endianness of the machine, executing the code, is big endian and zero otherwise​.

The tep_is_local_bigendian() function returns true, if the endianness of the local machine, saved in the tep handler, is big endian, or false otherwise​.

Example

#include <event-parse​.h>
​.​.​.
struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc();
​.​.​.
        if (tep_is_bigendian())
                tep_set_local_bigendian(tep, TEP_BIG_ENDIAN);
        else
                tep_set_local_bigendian(tep, TEP_LITTLE_ENDIAN);
​.​.​.
        if (tep_is_local_bigendian(tep))
                printf("This machine you are running on is bigendian\n");
        else
                printf("This machine you are running on is little endian\n");

Files

event-parse​.h
        Header file to include in order to have access to the library APIs​.
-ltraceevent
        Linker switch to add when building a program that uses the library​.

See Also

libtraceevent(3), trace-cmd(1)

Author

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis​.org​[1]>, author of libtraceevent​.
Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz​.stoyanov@gmail​.com​[2]>, author of this man page​.

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to <linux-trace-devel@vger​.kernel​.org​[3]>

License

libtraceevent is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL 2​.1

Resources

https://git​.kernel​.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent​.git/

Notes

  1. rostedt@goodmis.org
    mailto:rostedt@goodmis.org
  2. tz.stoyanov@gmail.com
    mailto:tz.stoyanov@gmail.com
  3. linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
    mailto:linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org

Info

10/02/2026 libtraceevent 1.9.0 libtraceevent Manual