🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:00:51 -0700, Doug Bath <dbath@agt.net> wrote:

>Thanks for confirming my worst fears. In this case it isn't a show stopper
>since I am writing this app mostly for internal use and most of the data I am
>working with is big endian with IEEE float values. However it means that I can
>forget about writing a commercial app since that functionality has to be there.

>This is the second major limitation I have encountered in Java

You're being far too pessimistic. Just because it won't work the way
you originally envisioned doesn't mean it can't be done. Here's a
general approach:

1) Instantiate a byte array, big enough to hold one of the values
whose bytes you want to swap.

2) Instantiate a ByteArrayOutputStream on those bytes.

3) Write the value to be converted to the stream.

4) Swap the bytes around in the byte array as desired.

5) Instantiate a ByteArrayInputStream on the bytes.

6) Read the converted value from the stream.

-Steve