[vtk-developers] TestWindBladeReader fails on BigEndian

[Bill Lorensen]

I took a very quick look at the wind blade reader. It seems the bulk
data is binary and there is no byte swapping as far as I can tell.
So, it might be a big effort to support BigEndian machines. If it is
not critical to support these machines, we could exclude it from
BigEndian systems.

Is this a widely used format?

Bill

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Sohail Shafii <sohailshafii at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't have access to a big endian machine. I'll look into that line of
> code when I have time, but I won't have the test environment to properly
> recreate the situation and debug it.
>
> Sohail
>
> ________________________________
> From: Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com>
> To: David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
> Cc: Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>; VTK Developers
> <vtk-developers at vtk.org>; Sohail Shafii <sohailshafii at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 7:13 AM
> Subject: Re: TestWindBladeReader fails on BigEndian
>
> Hi Sohail,
>
> It looks like the WindBlade reader is having problems on big-endian machines
> --
> http://open.cdash.org/testSummary.php?project=11&name=vtkIOGeometryCxx-TestWindBladeReader&date=2013-02-20
>
> Do you think you could check it out?
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:48 AM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>
> We can try things out on one of the bluegene's, that or hunt down an old
> Mac.
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Andy Bauer <andy.bauer at kitware.com> wrote:
>> I'll look into this. Any idea of a machine at Kitware or some place else
>> that I could get access to it?
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:24 PM, David E DeMarle
>> <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Andy can you take a look at this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> David E DeMarle
>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>> R&D Engineer
>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Dave,
>>> >
>>> > Not sure who cares about WindBladeReader but it sems to be broken on
>>> > BigEndian (not many left) systems.
>>> > Power PC and AIX
>>> >
>>> > Suggestions?
>>> >
>>> > Bill
>>
>>
>
>
>
>



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