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Re: Alsa plays only wav files



On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> --- Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Die, 2002-09-17 at 03:35, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > 
> > > <dumbquestion>
> > > Why don't they just put a header on the sample
> > that indicates its endianness?
> > > IIRC that's how tiff works.
> > > </dumbquestion>
> > 
> > I think endianness is defined with most if not all
> > audio formats; that
> > doesn't prevent apps from thinking all the world is
> > little endian. :/
> 
> BTW, why was ppc designed as big engian? Just to be
> incompatible?

To be compatible with m68k. Besides, PPC does have a little endian mode as
well, but it's less efficient.

> If all the world was little endian, it would be much
> easier.

Not all the world was little endian. If you refer to Intel, there were lots of
big endian computers that predated the 8086 (e.g. the IBM 370).

> Or no?

Big endian is the one true and correct endianness ;-)
Or do you write 00001 EUR if you mean 10000?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds




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