On Nov 26, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:

> If the source code that is sending you the data in the first place is your 
> own code, you could have that code use the CFConvertFloat32ToSwapped() before 
> sending it, and then your client can use CFConvertFloat32SwappedToHost() to 
> convert it back, nice and easily.

No, it is not my code, and I am reading data from a document, there is no 
server-client interaction.


> 
> At any rate, HostToBig is not what you want in the client, since you’re 
> swapping it *to* the host byte order, not *from* it. CFSwapInt32BigToHost() 
> would be more correct in that case, even though the two functions will both 
> do the same thing in practice on a little-endian machine.

Thanks for pointing that. They indeed give the same result.

- Koen.

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