[AC_CACHE_CHECK(whether float word ordering is bigendian,
ax_cv_c_float_words_bigendian, [
# The endianess is detected by first compiling C code that contains a special
# double float value, then grepping the resulting object file for certain
# strings of ascii values. The double is specially crafted to have a
# binary representation that corresponds with a simple string. In this
# implementation, the string "noonsees" was selected because the individual
# word values ("noon" and "sees") are palindromes, thus making this test
# byte-order agnostic. If grep finds the string "noonsees" in the object
# file, the target platform stores float words in big-endian order. If grep
# finds "seesnoon", float words are in little-endian order. If neither value
# is found, the user is instructed to specify the ordering.
ax_cv_c_float_words_bigendian=unknown
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[
double d = 90904234967036810337470478905505011476211692735615632014797120844053488865816695273723469097858056257517020191247487429516932130503560650002327564517570778480236724525140520121371739201496540132640109977779420565776568942592.0;