From b1f4a8160621f09b12ab6543b5d6f3e40d3c8644 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Osfield <robert@openscenegraph.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:26:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] From Mathias Froehlich, "Fix possible problem with aliasing
 rules.. and fix a gcc warning :)Use a union to determine if we are on a
 little endian or big endian machine."

---
 include/osg/Endian | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/osg/Endian b/include/osg/Endian
index 7673cdfb3..9476ef13c 100644
--- a/include/osg/Endian
+++ b/include/osg/Endian
@@ -26,9 +26,14 @@ enum Endian
 
 inline Endian getCpuByteOrder()
 {
-    static char big_endian_1[2] = { 0, 1 };
+    union {
+        char big_endian_1[2];
+        short is_it_really_1;
+    } u;
+    u.big_endian_1[0] = 0;
+    u.big_endian_1[1] = 1;
 
-    if ( (*((short*) big_endian_1)) == 1)
+    if (u.is_it_really_1 == 1)
         return BigEndian;
     else 
         return LittleEndian;