banks and endians
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v1 and v2 is not equal if this code is executed on a mac:
local b:tbank = loadbank("littleendian::file.bin")
local v1:int = peekint( b, 0 )
local s:tstream = readfile("littleendian::file.bin")
local v2:int = readint( s )
v2 contains the correct value. Is this the way it should behave? Was unable to find anything about it in the manual. I know that loadbank cannot convert the data it loads, but it should at least set a flag or something so readint and friends converts the data. |
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| Testing on a PC I get this behaviour: The value returned by ReadInt changes with the endianness. LoadBank ignores bigendian/littleendian, as it must. PeekInt just returns 'raw data'. That seems correct to me. Peek is a lower level function that Read. It would just feel wrong to have Peek automatically change values based on endianness. |
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| It would just feel wrong to have Peek automatically change values based on endianness. But what if I want to load a binary file in little endian format into a bank on a mac and read stuff? Like I want to do now? :) I'm using streams now so this isn't a problem for me. Just wanted to report what I thought was a bug. |
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| Hi, This is correct behaviour. LoadBank uses the low level stream 'read' function, which is not affected by endianness. |
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