[vtkusers] #Defines for Big or Little Endian

[Sean McBride]

On 2006-09-01 11:06, Mike Jackson said:

>No, actually vtkByteSwap::Swap4BE() does the swap period. It does not pay
>attention to if it actually _needs_ to be done. It just does it.

Are you sure?  It looks to me like it's wrapped in #if defined
(VTK_WORDS_BIGENDIAN).  But the code is full of templates and macros and
C++ gives me a headache. :)  The docs don't help much either, Swap4BE()
is amusingly described as "Swap 2, 4, or 8 bytes for storage as Big
Endian". huh?

I'll think you'll have to make a little test app and try the various
functions in vtkByteSwap.

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