On 10/30/09 5:20 PM, Kyle Sluder said: >On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Sean McBride <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Ah yes, I forgot about those... But I've found them not useful in >> practice. I don't get why for ints they have host<->big, host<->little, >> etc. for the floats they don't. Instead they have those weird host<- >>>swapped. And though they take floats, they return structs. Odd. > >Probably because the intent is to use them for network communication >or other serialization. So you "encode" a float into a Swapped struct >on the way out, and "decode" it back into a float on the other end.
If so, then when the docs say: "CFConvertFloatHostToSwapped Converts a 32-bit float from the host's native byte order to a platform- independent format" I guess 'platform-independent format' is code for big endian. -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng [email protected] Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
