On 01.10.2012 14:43, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
On 01 Oct 2012, at 14:01, Henrik Sperre Johansen <[email protected]>
wrote:
Endianness in header depends on the platform the image was saved on.
Which for all practical purposes, means little-endian these days.
How can an image be cross-platform, but the header not ?
--
Sven Van Caekenberghe
http://stfx.eu
Smalltalk is the Red Pill
IIRC, because the VM checks which endianness the header is written in
(by comparing to known image formats in big and little-endian format),
and then triggering a swap of all pointers/variableWord objects when
loading the image on a differing platform.
Cheers,
Henry
