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Re: little and big endian -- once more [message #15338 is a reply to message #15329]

Wed, 12 May 1999 00:00

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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David Fanning wrote:
>
> Martin Schultz (mgs@io.harvard.edu) writes:
>
> [...]
>
> Here is a little function, Martin, that will make sure
> your code works without having to track every machine
> architecture down. Found it on my web page. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

well, that's not all you need. Of course I replaced my string('x86')
thing with the inline code of little_endian() and at first it seemed to
work fine. But I encountered one situation when the SWAP_IF keyword
would not detect things properly which is reading data from a mounted
network drive with different endian (i.e. a generic unix drive mounted
to a linux box). So, I guess, I should give Liam's suggestion a try.
Unfortunately, it seems that you must know what's in the file in order
to test it, but that's probably a good idea anyway when you are dealing
with binary files ;-) Just for clarification: is it true that the endian
matters for integers as well as floats?

Thanks again,
Martin.

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		Re: little and big endian -- once more By: Dick Jackson on Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00
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		Re: little and big endian -- once more By: Martin Schultz on Wed, 12 May 1999 00:00
		Re: little and big endian -- once more By: Liam Gumley on Wed, 12 May 1999 00:00
		Re: little and big endian -- once more By: davidf on Wed, 12 May 1999 00:00

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