The Native Endian Package for Go

The Go (golang) standard library's encoding/binary package includes ready-made encoders and decoders for reading and writing binary data in both the big- and little-endian byte orders. However, it contains no way to obtain the native endianness of the currently-running binary. In most cases, you shouldn't need to know this.

In the rare case that you actually care about native byte order in a Go program, this package exports a single function, NativeEndian that returns the ByteOrder from the encoding/binary package corresponding to the currently-running program. This package does not rely on unsafe. Instead, it determines endianness of the program at compile time using build tags.

Usage

import (
	"encoding/binary"
	"github.com/yalue/native_endian"
)

func main() {
	// ...
	err := binary.Read(myInput, native_endian.NativeEndian(), myDataStructure)
	// ...
}