Makes sense to me. On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM <sane-de...@symme.link> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 10:00:45PM -0700, Ralph Little wrote: >> > On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM James Ring <s...@jdns.org> wrote: >> > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM Ralph Little <skelb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> Someone has asked the question about byte order in multi-byte image >> data >> > >> that we might get from a SANE backend. >> >> Hi, it's me, I had the question. >> >> > >> It is not enough to assume the local machine byte order since we may >> get >> > >> data through the net backend from a remote machine with a different >> byte >> > >> order. >> >> The `net` backend explicitly swaps to local machine byte order: >> >> https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/blob/master/backend/net.c?ref_type=heads#L2356-2362 >> >> So, it does seem like the de facto standard is that backends produce >> data in local machine byte order. >> >> (The protocol documentation reinforces this as a standard: >> > > Agreed. Perhaps this is something we should add to the SANE API > specification? > Allan, do you concur? > > Cheers, > Ralph > -- "well, I stand up next to a mountain- and I chop it down with the edge of my hand"
