[patch] little-endian dmasound silently fails

Takashi Oe toe at unlserve.unl.edu
Sat Feb 5 10:59:13 EST 2000


On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Brad Midgley wrote:

> ha. that's a pun. it's not silent at all when you listen.
>
> seriously, the dmasound driver advertises itself as little-endian capable
> but doesn't provide the proper translators. so clients like openh323
> switch the mode to little-endian (without any errors) and write
> little-endian data and the result is a hissing noise!

How does it write "little-endian data"?  Does the program take care of CPU
being big-endian in some way?  If not, I'd think it's the program's fault.


Takashi Oe


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