Hi, > On 20 Jul 2021, at 18:01, Michal Vlasák <lahc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > when NO_DUMP_SHARE is not defined and the system is Little endian, then > for the possibility of sharing format files between architectures all > dumped multi-byte valules are byte swapped by the function "swap_items" > in "tex/texfileio.c". > > The origin of the function is in Web2C's "texmfmp.c" and it seems that > it was added to LuaTeX in the version 1.08 when the source was converted > from CWeb (or am I reading the history wrong?).
That code has been around since 2010 (luatex 0.60-ish). I can’t remember exactly why I did that odd copying to a temp array, but I do remember that that particular function was quite problematic w.r.t. endianness and (cross)compiler issues (read: bugs, as in “internal compiler error"). Best wishes, Taco — Taco Hoekwater E: t...@bittext.nl genderfluid (all pronouns) _______________________________________________ dev-luatex mailing list dev-luatex@ntg.nl https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-luatex
