On 6/7/05, Bill Briggs <email@hidden> wrote:
>It seems the only real heartache is for folks who have Carbon apps
>that they've been compiling in Metroworks.
There are a lot of binary-data-manipulation toolkits - for image
files, audio files, and whatnot - which assume big-endian hardware;
those will have to be modified to deal with the possibility that
they're running on little-endian hardware. That even affects some
Java apps of my acquaintance, despite the relatively high level of Java
itself. But you're unlikely to be doing that sort of bit
twiddling in AppleScript, so I don't anticipate any problems on that
front. Even scripts which automate such media bit twiddlers
shouldn't be affected, since the conversion should logically be
automatic and hidden behind the app's scripting interface.
