[ILUG] Binary files

[Sean]

Michael Turley wrote:
> 
> I changed a sizeof(int) to sizeof(short) in
> fread(&offset, sizeof(int),1,fp); and that did the
> trick.
> 
> Now I've got the program working on Linux but I still
> can't get it working on AIX. Anyone know anything
> about type bytesizes on AIX?. Maybe someone knows a
> short program to show the size in bytes of a variable
> type (I would like to compare shorts, ints and longs
> on Linux and AIX)?

   AIX uses big endian, Linux (on x86) uses little endian.
   you'll have to use some bit swapping...
  
>

Sean.
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