Determining the endianness of your distribution

To determine the endianness of your distribution, specify the following command:
uname -i

If the result is ppc64le, your distribution is little endian. For installation instructions, see Installing IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, V13.1.3 for little endian distributions.

If the result is ppc64, your distribution is big endian. For installation instructions, see Installing IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, V13.1 for big endian distributions.

Parent topic: Before installing IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, V13.1.3


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