[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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