Word description Defines a packed struct where endian-unaware types become big-endian types. Note that endian-aware types will override the big-endianness of this struct declaration; little-endian types will stay little-endian. On big-endian platforms, the endian-unaware types will not change since they are the correct endianness already.
! When run on a big-endian platform, this struct should prettyprint the same as defined
! The output of this example is from a little-endian platform
USE: alien.endian
BE-PACKED-STRUCT: s1 { a char[7] } { b int } ;
\ s1 see USING: alien.c-types alien.endian classes.struct ;
IN: scratchpad
STRUCT: s1 { a char[7] } { b be32 initial: 0 } ;