On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 01:01:47PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
> I'm starting to be a little suspicious about host2little(). I wonder
> if that's well-defined.
>
> I'm just guessing here becasue I can't see the code. Is it possible
template<typename T> T swap_endian(T x)
{
char* a = reinterpret_cast<char*>(&x);
char* b = a + sizeof(T) - 1;
while (a<b) {
char tmp = *a;
*a++ = *b;
*b-- = tmp;
}
return x;
}
template<typename T> T host2little(T x)
{
unsigned u = 1; return (*reinterpret_cast<char*>(&u) ? x :
swap_endian(x));
}
> for you to turn this into a small test case that anyone can run?
Thats the plan. Once I have a clue whats going on, I'll be able to
generate a small testcase for bugzilla. I'm looking for some informed
guesses as to what might be happening in order to target my investigation...
>
> Andrew.
