Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] No audio on os x reading .dat files

[John Clark]

Josh Jennings schrieb:
> As far as I know, one would need to make an endian sniffer which would
> either read a header in the file or decide on its own how to
> read/convert the file.

No just add 'intelToHost_XX()'  or 'HostToIntel' functions for reading 
data, or writing data.
Then a host sensitive reader would have these defined appropriately for 
the endianness of
the host.

This is done all the time throughout the networking code.

Perhaps to make it more efficient, 'Intel_Array_To_Host', or 
'Host_Array_To_Intel' would
allow for converting chunks of data from the file format to the host format.

Obviously if the files are never going to be seen outside the particular 
host, it doesn't matter.

The alternative would be to format data al la a 'IFF' chunk... if there 
is a float or double
format for such...

John Clark