On Apr 6, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Glynn Clements wrote:
1. Individual modules can write whatever they want under cell_misc.
E.g. the fftreal and fftimag files written by i.fft are in host byte
order.
Ugh, didn't know about that one (we took care of the stroke fonts and
portable.h already). This would make it impossible to work with the
same fft map data on PPC and Intel OSX, or sharing fft map data
between different platforms (most Mac users consider "OSX" the
platform, not the "processor" type).
2. Even when portable formats are used, the precise choice of format
may be platform-specific.
Maybe we need to specify that anything written must be in a portable
format. And provide some library functions (maybe already there?) for
writing data in a portable way.
Another item for GRASS 7, I suppose...
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