Re: [Tsp-devel] Question on data retrieved from different OS : endianness problem

[Eric Noulard]

2008/11/20 Bettina TANOH <address@hidden>:
> Hi everybody,

Hi Bettina,

>
> I have a question.
> I want to develop a TSP consumer in Java to retrieve data from TSP provider
> running on different OS : one is Linux x86 and the other one is Sparc.
> Data on x86 is encoded in little endian whereas on Sparc it's big endian.
> I guess TSP consider this case : in the file "tsp_server.c" there is some
> code in comments about endianity management. But is this code operational
> and tested ? Is it sufficient to deal with endianness problem or do I have
> to add some code in another place?

TSP should handle endianity out-of-the-box :=)
However we have fixed a late bug concerning endianity.
You should either either get an up to date CVS version of TSP
or patch your TSP.

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?24797


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Erk