Re: Various Qs about Intel and AppleScript
Re: Various Qs about Intel and AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Various Qs about Intel and AppleScript
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:10:35 -0800
On Feb 2, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
On 1/11/06 12:34 PM, "Christopher Nebel" <email@hidden> wrote:
On Jan 11, 2006, at 5:15 AM, jj wrote:
Will little-endian vs. big-endian affect AS code?
For example, if I compile an alias reference in a PowerPC
machine, will it fail in the Intel one?
Or should I write/read Unicode text being aware of endian
differences?
In general, it Just Works™ -- scripts, compiled or otherwise, will
work between Intel and PowerPC systems. It's possible to write
code that won't work correctly, but you have to work at it --
something like doing your own byte-to-word transforms.
To answer the particular question of "read" and "write", they
always read and write big-endian data -- we made it that way so
existing data files would work on Intel systems. You don't have
to do anything special.
Chris, will everything also be OK with such constructs as 'write as
date', 'read as date' an the other "self-defining" formats (as
record, as list), at least as long as the same computer does the
reading and writing?
Yes. It'll even be OK if different computers do the reading and
writing. That's what "always read and write big-endian data" means
-- the on-disk data format is consistent.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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