Re: [xml] libxml endian detection

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:55:48PM +0200, Martin Strauss wrote:
> Hi !
> I just tried to compile libxml on a cray t3e,
> that works .. 
> (I only need the basic xml interface, I switched off everything else)
>
> even the example compiles and runs ... until

  haha :-)

> the endian detection ...
>
> on the cray  (big endian architecture)
> the size of unsigned short int is 4

  arghh ... right, I didn't know such a platform existed ...

> the file encoding.c assumes that it has always the size of 2 ...

  yes

> I could patch that ...

  how ? do you have an atomic type of size 2 bytes ? 
using things like int:16 ?
I would definitely like to see such patch, I assume this could be 
protected by a preprocessor define like #ifdef UNICOS or something similar.

> but ...
> are there other parts of libxml that depend on the size of short int ?

  Looking quickly, except the trio code there doesn't seems to be other
occurence, but you probably don't use it.

> any ideas ?

  Send the patch ! :-)

    TIA,

Daniel

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