On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 17:00 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:51:35 +0200, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 16:39 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:19:31 +0200, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
Has not worked since commit 3d1fa924906996463ac33cba5b5143f762d913cf
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Johansson kenneth@southpole.se
Hrm, sorry, but your version is also broken as doing type-punning. The code has to be rewritten completely...
Takashi
hmm I think you have to explain this. now it works on both little/big endian without any explicit byte moves.
It did not understand what problem you see.
You can't cast from a char pointer to another type (e.g. short) and read the value. This is called "type-punning" and doesn't work properly with the recent GCC (depending on the optimization and code parsing) since it handles strict-aliasing.
See GCC info for details.
Takashi
But there is no aliasing problem in that code. The memory is only accessed(written in this case) using one type.