From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxconsole-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: vcsa and big endian
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:47:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071205164740.GB4756@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071209225039.GB25047@implementation>
On Sun 2007-12-09 23:50:39, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Samuel Thibault, le Sun 09 Dec 2007 23:43:49 +0100, a écrit :
> > On big endian machines, /dev/vcsa stores text/attribute bytes in big
> > endian order, while it stores them in little endian order on little
> > endian machines. Is that expected?
>
> It looks like ggi considers this as normal. In any case, the vcsa
> manual page should probably be made more clear ("but including
> attributes" -> "but using unsigned shorts that include attributes" for
> instance).
I'd say you need stronger warning than that, "warning, vcsa is in host
byte endianity" or something.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-15 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-09 22:43 Samuel Thibault
2007-12-09 22:50 ` Samuel Thibault
2007-12-05 16:47 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2007-12-09 23:00 ` Samuel Thibault
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