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Byte Order and Endianness

Learn how to handle byte order in using SDL's endianness functions

Ryan McCombe
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Detecting File Endianness
How can I detect if a binary file was written in big-endian or little-endian format if I don't know which one was used?
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SDL_RWops vs C++ Streams
The code examples use SDL_RWops for file handling. Can't we just use regular C++ file streams? What's the advantage of SDL's approach?
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Handling Structs and Endianness
What's the best way to handle endianness when working with structs that contain multiple different-sized members?
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Floating-Point Endianness
How do SDL's endianness functions handle floating-point numbers differently from integers?
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Signed vs Unsigned Endianness
The examples all use unsigned integers. Do I need to handle endianness differently for signed integers?
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Big-Endian Applications
If most modern CPUs are little-endian, why do we ever use big-endian format? What are the use cases?
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