FROM : Nick Zitzmann
DATE : Tue Nov 20 21:32:34 2007
On Nov 20, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Lorenzo wrote:
> Thank you Allen, it worked like a charm. And this is a great news.
> I can now store a lot of data in a single line. I suppose this is
> endian-safe. It will work on Intel ad PPC. Right?
> I mean, I can write values on Intel and read values on PPC and
> viceversa,
> right?
Due to endian differences between the architectures, I would not make
that assumption. Instead, I would swap the values from the host to
either big-endian or little-endian before saving/sending/etc. and then
swap them back upon loading/receiving/etc.
Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>
DATE : Tue Nov 20 21:32:34 2007
On Nov 20, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Lorenzo wrote:
> Thank you Allen, it worked like a charm. And this is a great news.
> I can now store a lot of data in a single line. I suppose this is
> endian-safe. It will work on Intel ad PPC. Right?
> I mean, I can write values on Intel and read values on PPC and
> viceversa,
> right?
Due to endian differences between the architectures, I would not make
that assumption. Instead, I would swap the values from the host to
either big-endian or little-endian before saving/sending/etc. and then
swap them back upon loading/receiving/etc.
Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>
| Related mails | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Lorenzo | Nov 20, 20:16 | |
| Hank Heijink | Nov 20, 20:37 | |
| Paul Sargent | Nov 20, 20:37 | |
| Allen Smith | Nov 20, 20:57 | |
| Paul Sargent | Nov 20, 20:59 | |
| Lorenzo | Nov 20, 21:14 | |
| Nick Zitzmann | Nov 20, 21:32 | |
| David Spooner | Nov 20, 21:50 | |
| Ricky Sharp | Nov 20, 22:42 | |
| David Spooner | Nov 21, 01:04 |






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