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Re: [gpsd-dev] ARM port problem in rtcm3.2 handling
From: |
Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
Re: [gpsd-dev] ARM port problem in rtcm3.2 handling |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Apr 2016 07:22:31 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Hal Murray <address@hidden>:
>
> address@hidden said:
> > Gary, I think there's an endianness problem in your recent 3.2 additions
> > somewhere.
>
> I thought that Raspberry Pi was normal endianness.
>
> How much endianness is there in GPSD?
Can't be a lot. Years ago I audited carefully for such problems using
big-endian
machines on the Debian built farm. Didn't find many, and fixed them all. The
insulating layer of field-extraction macros in bits.h helps a great deal.
This kind of problem would almost have to be due to a recent driver change.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>