[vtkusers] #Defines for Big or Little Endian

[Sean McBride]

On 2006-08-31 16:35, Mike Jackson said:

>Is there a #define some where that I can use to test if I am running
>on a big or little endian machine?
>
>Beyond that, are there already methods some where that I have not
>found that will take a value, say UIn32 and swap the bytes to whatever
>the system is? Something like:
>
>ByteSwap::swapLEToSystem( UInt32 );

I believe vtkByteSwap is the only class that does anything like this. 
You might want to search all the vtk code for "VTK_WORDS_BIGENDIAN" to
learn a little more about how vtk does swapping.

Personally, I find Apple's APIs are much better named, but I believe
vtkByteSwap::Swap4BE(), for example, swaps a 4 byte value from host to big.

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