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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Byte order conversions
From:       Szombathelyi_György <gyurco () freemail ! hu>
Date:       2004-10-27 13:17:02
Message-ID: 417F9FCE.7090808 () freemail ! hu
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Rüdiger Knörig wrote:

  > The attachment contains a template class which will do the job. For 
automatic
> conversion of custom datatypes the autoconf macros AC_C_BIGENDIAN(), 
> AC_CHECK_SIZE(short) and AC_CHECK_SIZE(int) have to be executed.
> If these macros exist you can convert from host endianess via:
> ConvertEndianess<double>::convert(doubleval,Endian::BigEndian);
> or change the endianess via
> ConvertEndianess<double>::swapEndianess(doubleval);
> 
Isn't it over-engineered a bit? I mean that if some code needs byte 
order conversion, it usually does it in a loop, so some simple macro or 
inline fuction would be faster.

Bye,
György

 
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