On 24 Nov 2005 at 22:27, Robert Patterson wrote: > As bad as the compiler issue (which is far bigger than any non > C-programmer probably realizes) is the issue of integer endian-ness. > It's a highly technical problem, but one that will throw a wrench into > any complicated program like Finale no matter what compiler it's on.
Surely MakeMusic is not maintaining two separate codebases, one big- endian and one little-endian. Instead, they surely have a codebase that has conditional compiling for operations that need to perform operations at a level where big- vs. little-endian actually matters. Unless, of course, that was something that was handled entirely by the compiler they were using. But on this subject, surely the compilers for Intel will automatically take care of this, since the entire existing codebase of Mac applications will have this problem. Indeed, it seems to me that companies that release cross-platform are more likely to be less bothered by it than Mac-only development houses, because they would have already engineered solving that problem into their codebase. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
