Comments on: use perl: pack() to send floats between intel/sparc with proper endian-ness. http://chetnichols.org/2010/02/22/use-perl-pack-to-send-floats-between-intelsparc-with-proper-endian-ness/ and other random technical bantering, by chet nichols Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:43:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: chet http://chetnichols.org/2010/02/22/use-perl-pack-to-send-floats-between-intelsparc-with-proper-endian-ness/comment-page-1/#comment-227 chet Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:04:23 +0000 http://chetnichols.org/?p=78#comment-227 hahaha that's awesome. yeah, i just came across that dd option yesterday actually - i was having some fun adventures doing something with it the past few days, and hit the point where it was time i actually looked at the options instead of the usual if, of, bs, and occasionally count. oooh much fun was had. ;) hahaha that’s awesome. yeah, i just came across that dd option yesterday actually – i was having some fun adventures doing something with it the past few days, and hit the point where it was time i actually looked at the options instead of the usual if, of, bs, and occasionally count. oooh much fun was had. ;)

]]> By: Jim http://chetnichols.org/2010/02/22/use-perl-pack-to-send-floats-between-intelsparc-with-proper-endian-ness/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Jim Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:47:30 +0000 http://chetnichols.org/?p=78#comment-206 Hah! Nice hack. Big vs Little endian is one of my pet peeves - it seems like such a simple thing to agree on! I'm so old... (How old?) ... So old, that we used to fix it with "dd". We used that to fix ascii vs ebcdic too (Yeah, *that* old.) -Jim Hah! Nice hack.

Big vs Little endian is one of my pet peeves – it seems like such a simple thing to agree on!

I’m so old… (How old?) … So old, that we used to fix it with “dd”. We used that to fix ascii vs ebcdic too (Yeah, *that* old.)

-Jim

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