Re:A review of endianness bugs in Qt, and how they were fixed
by EdSchouten on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:11AM
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How? We’re just reading from a byte array.
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Re:A review of endianness bugs in Qt, and how they were fixed
by josefx on Saturday January 02, 2021 @07:33AM
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The optimized code assumes it can read a full 32 bit value at once. So at least that is only valid on a platform that doesn't assume that 32 bit loads are aligned and the actual compiled code would look a lot worse on platforms that do.