Re: [Gnash-dev] Alignment in AMF data

[Rob Savoye]

Russ Nelson wrote:

> Unfortunately, fetching full-sized data from a buffer is subject to
> alignment problems.  Rob (our fearless leader) doesn't like the
> following code, but it never has byte sex or alignment problems, and
> there's never any ambiguity about exactly what you're loading.

  I never said I didn't like this code, what I said is we should avoid
code duplication, and use existing functions for swapping bytes. Gnash
uses both swapBytes() and the ntohl(), etc.. macros for byte swapping,
which is what we should be using.

        - rob -