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Return `true` if this platform is &quot;big&hyphen;endian&quot;, and `false` otherwise&period; Note that &quot;big&hyphen;endian&quot; (i&period;e&period;, the most significant byte of data at the lowest byte address) is consistent with network byte order&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bsls&lowbar;platformutil&period;h&gt;`

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static
bool
isBigEndian();
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== Description

DEPRECATED&colon; Use preprocessor macro `BSLS&lowbar;PLATFORM&lowbar;IS&lowbar;BIG&lowbar;ENDIAN` defined in `bsls&lowbar;platform` instead&period;


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