17 Oct
2006
17 Oct
'06
1 p.m.
John Maddock wrote:
I'm not completely certain, but I believe HP-UX falls into this category: the idea is that you can pass binary data from one platform to another, and just switch the endianness bit to access it natively (think distributed applications).
Now endian.hpp defines BOOST_BIG_ENDIAN on HP-UX. This was suggested by Boris Gubenko. If you are right John, then this seems to be incorrect. Shouldn't endian.hpp then define something like BOOST_UNKNOWN_ENDIAN on HP-UX? Boris, do you have any comments on this? Then my fpclassify could use a fast implementation when BOOST_BIG_ENDIAN or BOOST_LITTLE_ENDIAN is defined and a slower implementation when BOOST_UNKNOWN_ENDIAN is defined. --Johan