Re: [linux-audio-dev] sfront 0.65 09/07/00

[Iain Sandoe]

 
> [2] If you're using gcc, and you're creating C code for constant float
> tables that you want compiled fast, turn the data into hexadecimal
> strings:
>
> char foo[5] = "\x00\x00\xa0\x41";

Won't this break it for both Sun & PPC (and any other BE machine) ?

> compiles quicker than
>
> float foo[1] = { 0.39485};

- that is I think it's a byte ordering problem - not an embedded 0 problem
(but maybe I'm not awake yet :-)

[or maybe you re-reverse it at run-time]

Iain.