Re: lpack "other-endian" numbers?

[sessile <sessile@...>]

At 12:19 AM 4/27/2004 -0300, lhf wrote:
> >Would anyone happen to have modified lhf's lpack library to work with
> >numbers that are in stored with endianness opposite of the native system?
>
> I've updated lpack to handle this by adding three new codes:
> - After seeing <, all numbers are packed/unpacked in little endian order
> - After seeing >, all numbers are packed/unpacked in big endian order
> - After seeing =, all numbers are packed/unpacked in native endian order
>
> Get lpack at the usual place:
>         http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/
>
> I hope it helps. Enjoy.
> --lhf

Thanks for this.  It is an improvement over the byte-flipping
hackery I had been using for unpacking (haven't tried packing
anything yet).

--
Dean.