On 26-Nov-05, at 2:51 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Am 25.11.2005 um 23:44 schrieb Bob Courchaine:
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Regarding endianness: BitBlt now deals fine with LSB forms, I thought. Works fine for 8 bpp at least, not sure about 2, though ...
Looks like it's been there since 2001, Bert.
It's been that long already? Rats, I'm getting old ... To my defense I could say that 4 years is still rather recent compared to the 30 years BitBlt has been around in Smalltalk ;-)
At least any VM in use now should have little-endian BitBlt support.
But it still is a lesser know feature - if even Tim didn't know or remember, who would? ;-)
I spent quite a while trying to make use of the supposed littleendian support mentioned and it simply didn't function correctly for my RISC OS vm so I forgot about it.
To be honest, with the only interesting bigendian machines being the PPC Macs - and they're on the way out - it would make more sense to just make Squeak do littleendian pervasively.
tim