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>> Datum: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:16:01 +0100
>> Von: "Paul Herring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> An: [email protected]
>> Betreff: Re: [c-prog] endianness questions
>
>> Any more details on this app in case others know more about it. Sounds
>> like my Solution#2 may be more suitable.
>>
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>
> Sounds like your method 2 would require me to use additional libs ,if i
> understand right , which seems a bit overkill really, just for this.
> It doesnt seem that difiicult to just swap the bytes manually, if needed. I
> think i rather go that way instead of depending on libs ..
> Ive just done more tests, and it seems bool values are also stored different
> ,ie affected by endianness. Which seems strange to me ?
> So in that case , i guess i could just have an int in my fileheader, set that
> to 5 or whatever, and then use that to determine the endianess of the file on
> loading by cheking wheter its 5....
>
> Thanks
> Max
Instead of swapping bytes, you could always use shifting. Bits in bytes
are almost always ordered the same way (bit 7 to 0).
char MyInt[sizeof(int)];
for (int x = 0; x < sizeof(int); x++)
{
MyInt[x] = (char)(YourInt & 0xFF);
YourInt = YourInt >> 8;
}
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