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Re: Porting from Linux to MacOS

>> The number one issue is byte swapping. Far too many people
>> assume that 16
>> and 32 bit values can be read from a file directly into int's
>> and short's.
>> This is no longer the case. The bytes are reversed on PowerPC/680x0
>> processors. (Floats and doubles too).
>
> Just to be very clear, bits within the bytes themselves aren't reversed

Unless you are talking about a bitfield. When porting code we have found
that some sloppy programmers use bitfields to set values into the structures
and then case statements with constants to test for various combinations.

Not only is the byte order backwards, but the bit field order is backwards
also. This might also be compiler dependent.

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