Re: [Bitcoin-development] Endianness (was: Linux packaging letter)

2013-07-23 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > order to and from the wire, which is part of why the protocol is LE > everywhere, *before someone corrects me, it's not LE everywhere (I meant "manywhere" :P)— there is just enough BE to keep you on your toes. :P --

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Endianness (was: Linux packaging letter)

2013-07-23 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Wendell wrote: > Forking for curiosity's sake: > Is there a substantial barrier to endian independence in the Bitcoin codebase? Not really. The software was originally written to write out memory order to and from the wire, which is part of why the protocol is LE

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Endianness (was: Linux packaging letter)

2013-07-23 Thread Luke-Jr
On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:54:25 AM Wendell wrote: > Is there a substantial barrier to endian independence in the Bitcoin > codebase? I got the obvious stuff ('endian' branch in my repo), but it still didn't work when I moved on. I haven't had time to try to figure out why not yet. Luke

[Bitcoin-development] Endianness (was: Linux packaging letter)

2013-07-23 Thread Wendell
Forking for curiosity's sake: Is there a substantial barrier to endian independence in the Bitcoin codebase? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive On Jul 24, 2013, at 3:45 AM, Douglas Huff wrote: > The fact that you're even trying to package and/or at some point have > packaged and shi