[Interest] Byte Swapping float and double

[Michael Jackson]

I'll plat the naive one here. What is the proper Qt API to byte swap a float or double? create a union? or some other such trick like that?

Thanks
Mike Jackson

On Sep 7, 2013, at 2:29 PM, Etienne Sandré-Chardonnal <etienne.sandre at m4x.org> wrote:

> To be a little be more verbose, here is what the doc says for these functions:
> 
> Note: Template type T can either be a qint16, qint32 or qint64. Other types of integers, e.g., qlong, are not applicable.
> 
> 
> 2013/9/7 Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
> On sábado, 7 de setembro de 2013 12:24:26, Michael Jackson wrote:
> > I have some code that needs to convert from the system to Big Endian byte
> > order. All my integers work just fine but I am getting linker errors when
> > trying to byte swap floats and doubles.
> >
> > I have #include <QtCore/QtEndian>
> >
> > and I have a templates function like this:
> >
> > template<typename T>
> > void foo(T value)
> > {
> >   value = qToBigEndian(value);
> >    .. does something with that data.
> > }
> >
> 
> > What am I missing?
> 
> Nothing. Those functions don't exist.
> 
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> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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