[jira] Commented: (XERCESC-1502) xerces gets endianness wrong on Intel-based Macs

["David Bertoni (JIRA)" <xe...@xml.apache.org>]

    [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1502?page=comments#action_12329593 ] 

David Bertoni commented on XERCESC-1502:
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I think we should determine the platform endianness through the configure script, rather than through hard-coded defines in the header files.  Since we are making major changes for the 3.0 release, we might as well try to do that now.

> xerces gets endianness wrong on Intel-based Macs
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: XERCESC-1502
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1502
>      Project: Xerces-C++
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: Miscellaneous
>     Versions: Nightly build (please specify the date)
>  Environment: Mac OS X on an Apple Developer Transition Kit
>     Reporter: Eric Albert
>  Attachments: diffs.tgz
>
> MacOSDefs.hpp currently says this:
>    // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    //  MacOS runs in big endian mode.
>    // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    #define ENDIANMODE_BIG
> That's wrong, or at least out of date -- Apple is shifting to Intel-based Macs and will support both PowerPC and Intel systems moving forward.  The Intel-based Macs are of course little-endian.

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