[PD] writesf~ bug?

[Miller Puckette]

THanks... no, nobody I know uses next/sun format, but I'll go and put
in your fixes, thanks.

Rather than forcing .au to little-endian, I found and fixed the bug that
made the "-little" flag not work.

cheers
Miller

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:29:35PM -0000, Jorge Cardoso wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Krzysztof Czaja [mailto:czaja at chopin.edu.pl] 
> > Sent: quarta-feira, 7 de Janeiro de 2004 9:22
> > To: Jorge Cardoso
> > Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> > Subject: Re: [PD] writesf~ bug?
> > 
> > 
> > hi Jorge,
> > 
> > Jorge Cardoso wrote:
> > ...
> > > When I use writesf~ to save a file in 'au' format (using 
> > the -nextstep flag) the resulting 
> > > file is malformed (I can't open it with any sound program).
> > > After a little inspection to the generated file it seems to 
> > me that the file is always 
> > > big-indian encoded (it also seems that the -little/-big 
> > flags have no effect, the file is 
> > 
> > indeed (except that I got them always little-endian, i.e. "dns.").
> 
> Yep, I meant little-endian...
> 
> > 
> > Looks like soundfiler_writeargparse() is broken:  the `logic' of
> > its .snd file forming part is to have machine-endian as default,
> > unless for a -big or -little flags both picking a secondary
> > default, which is little-endian.
> 
> It really makes no sense to have those flags since the 
> next/sun format (as all other that I know of) is independent 
> of the machine architecture.
> 
> > 
> > The code has not been corrected, since probably nobody uses
> > next/sun format anymore, while aiff and wav's endiannes is fixed.
> > 
> 
> Well, I still (have to) use it :)
> 
> I fixed the code dealing with the endianess, and the size field code
> also.
> I have tested it in Linux and it it seems to be working now, but I would
> 
> appreciate if someone could compile it for Windows since I haven't been
> able, yet, to build PD in Windows (any pointers on this would be
> appreciated too ;).
> 
> Bye,
> jc
> 
> ---
> Jorge Cardoso <-> jorgecardoso at ieee.org
> 
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