Floating-point and mixed-endianness in D-Bus (was: dbus mini-summit)

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 9 de August de 2011 22:38:50 Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Sure. Little endian is not unique to CPUs
> 
> Or there is also the option of not interoperating buses of different 
> endianess. Even in the rare networked D-Bus case, that mixed endianess
> should  be an exception.

I believe the Java implementation uses big-endian messages by default, 
something that Matthew can confirm. As far as I recall, it does so because the 
default Java streaming operators will stream in big-endian mode.

Not that it can't be easily fixed in the Java code, though.

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