two questions (was Re: Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?)

[Andre Garzia]

Thanks for the tests Dar, that was not my major fear, what I really 
fear is that the sales of PPC machines will drop so much out of FUD 
that apple will have a hard time...

I think I am afraid of their profits sinking and things going all like 
armagedon...

andre


On Jun 6, 2005, at 4:03 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Jun 6, 2005, at 12:47 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
>
>> and the thing about little endian and big endian? anyone assuming 
>> byte orders and stuff like that will be doomed to the hell of 
>> debugging.
>
> We can stop making those assumptions right now.
>
> Untested...
>
> function platformIsBigEndian
>    return (char 1 of binaryEncode("I",1)) is null
> end platformIsBigEndian
>
> Note that some processors, maybe not that Rev is on, use a "middle 
> endian" mixed approach for 32-bit integers.
>
> Presumably, this will match the unicode (UTF16) order used by 
> Revolution, but if you are paranoid you can make a similar test using 
> numTochar():
>
> -- just keyed into the mail
> -- This assume unicode is some form of UTF16
> function unicodeIsUTF16BE
>   set the useUnicode to true
>   return (char 1 of numToChar(1)) is null
> end unicodeIsUTF16BE
>
> Dar
>
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