[Insight-users] Bug in itkVOLImageIO.cxx

[Miller, James V (Research)]

ITK has byteswapping code that does the right thing based
on the architecture etc.  Looks like the VOLImageIO code
however is not using it.  Thanks.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Wollny [mailto:wollny@cns.mpg.de]
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 7:09 AM
> To: insight-users@public.kitware.com
> Subject: [Insight-users] Bug in itkVOLImageIO.cxx
> 
> 
> Hello all, 
> 
> when I was reading over the code to implement my own data 
> reader class i
> saw the following:
> 
> in void VOLImageIO::ReadData the define 
> 
> #ifndef _WIN32
>   // reverse byte order for big-endian machines, which i 
> guess would be
>   //  not win32?
>   [...] 
> #endif
> 
> is a bit short-sighted, since endianess is not a matter of 
> the OS but of
> the hardware. 
> 
> With unix, autoconf provides the check AC_C_BIGENDIAN, which in turn
> defines the macro WORDS_BIGENDIAN. However, I do not know how this
> translates to cmake. Therefor I can not offer a simple fix. 
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Gert
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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