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Return `true` if this platform is "little‐endian", and `false` otherwise. Note that "little‐endian" (i.e., the least significant byte of data at the lowest byte address) is inconsistent with network byte order.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bsls_platformutil.h>`

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static
bool
isLittleEndian();
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== Description

DEPRECATED: Use preprocessor macro `BSLS_PLATFORMUTIL_IS_BIG_ENDIAN` defined in `bsls_platform` instead.


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