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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Examining individual bytes of an integer
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 09:55:51 +0100
Date: 2018-10-15T09:55:51+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lyftx7twq0.fsf@pushface.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: g2hpbjFpnrsU1@mid.individual.net

Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:

> (I have become very sensitive to endianness problems because my daily
> work involves writing Ada programs targeted to big-endian SPARC
> machines, but tested initially on little-endian PCs.)

My favourite was the BE system with a BE interface card to an LE network
protocol .. the interface card was only interested in the 16-bit message
header components, so it converted *the whole packet* as if it only
contained 16-bit values. Which it didn't.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-15  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-14 19:15 Examining individual bytes of an integer Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-14 19:55 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-10-14 21:28   ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-15 10:18     ` AdaMagica
2018-10-15 18:43       ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-15 20:18         ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-16 10:18           ` AdaMagica
2018-10-16 11:55             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-16 22:35               ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-17  8:10                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-17  9:47                   ` briot.emmanuel
2018-10-17 10:04                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-17 21:57                   ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-16 22:33             ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-17  6:51               ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-17 22:01                 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-17  8:17               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-17 22:03                 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-17 22:10                 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-18  8:01                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-18  9:33               ` AdaMagica
2018-10-18 21:18                 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-19  6:27                   ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-19  8:28                     ` AdaMagica
2018-10-19 16:38                       ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-14 21:04 ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-15  7:49   ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-15  8:55   ` Simon Wright [this message]
2018-10-15 10:52   ` Björn Lundin
2018-10-14 23:42 ` Matt Borchers
2018-10-14 23:45   ` Matt Borchers
2018-10-15  9:02     ` Simon Wright
2018-10-15  7:29   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-15  9:05   ` Simon Wright
2018-10-15 16:11     ` Simon Wright
2018-10-15 20:27   ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-15  5:37 ` Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-15  7:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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