[vtk-developers] TestWindBladeReader fails on BigEndian

[Andy Bauer]

The WindBlade reader is not a widely used format. I think for now the best
thing to do is to disable it for big endian machines and when it gets fixed
to re-enable it then.

I'm out of town next week but I'll get to it the next week if no one beats
me to it...

Andy

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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