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.
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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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