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Re: [Chicken-users] endian-port


From: Shawn Rutledge
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] endian-port
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:13:13 -0700

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Ivan Raikov <address@hidden> wrote:
>   Actually, the endian-blob egg in Chicken 4 is meant to take over the
> functionality of endian-port.

I saw that, but wrapping a port is pretty useful actually, since
endian conversions are usually relevant for I/O.  It's mostly a matter
of keeping some existing code that I wrote a couple years ago working,
but I didn't use floats back then, and have since found a need for
them...

> Your port of endian-port would probably
> have to rely on the wrappers generated by swig, which are not especially
> readable or maintainable. Unfortunately, I don't have Chicken 3
> installed anymore, so I cannot help with this particular problem, but
> take a look at endian-blob and let me know if it would be suitable for
> your needs.




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