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Re: [Devel] Big endian still searching
From: |
Tom Kacvinsky |
Subject: |
Re: [Devel] Big endian still searching |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:05:52 -0400 (EDT) |
Hi Antoine,
>
> I do not enough of .PFB to know if endianness is a problem (I would guess no),
> but I cannot conceive of a reason why the scheme of avoiding *at all cost*
> machine dependance (particularly something very known such as endianness)
> would have been brocken by David during the developpement of Freetype 2.
>
It is in the CFF and Type 1 specs that multibyte integers are stored in network
byte order (i.e., big endian).
Regards,
Tom