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boost_endian/example/endian_example.cpp

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// endian_example.cpp -------------------------------------------------------//
// Copyright Beman Dawes, 2006
// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
// See http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt
// See library home page at http://www.boost.org/libs/endian
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------//
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE // quiet VC++ 8.0 foolishness
#include <boost/endian/detail/disable_warnings.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
#include <boost/endian/integers.hpp>
#include <boost/static_assert.hpp>
using namespace boost::endian;
namespace
{
// This is an extract from a very widely used GIS file format. I have no idea
// why a designer would mix big and little endians in the same file - but
// this is a real-world format and users wishing to write low level code
// manipulating these files have to deal with the mixed endianness.
struct header
{
big32_t file_code;
big32_t file_length;
little32_t version;
little32_t shape_type;
};
const char * filename = "test.dat";
}
int main(int, char * [])
{
BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT( sizeof( header ) == 16U ); // check requirement
header h;
h.file_code = 0x01020304;
h.file_length = sizeof( header );
h.version = -1;
h.shape_type = 0x01020304;
// Low-level I/O such as POSIX read/write or <cstdio> fread/fwrite is sometimes
// used for binary file operations when ultimate efficiency is important.
// Such I/O is often performed in some C++ wrapper class, but to drive home the
// point that endian integers are often used in fairly low-level code that
// does bulk I/O operations, <cstdio> fopen/fwrite is used for I/O in this example.
std::FILE * fi = std::fopen( filename, "wb" ); // MUST BE BINARY
if ( !fi )
{
std::cout << "could not open " << filename << '\n';
return 1;
}
if ( std::fwrite( &h, sizeof( header ), 1, fi ) != 1 )
{
std::cout << "write failure for " << filename << '\n';
return 1;
}
std::fclose( fi );
std::cout << "created file " << filename << '\n';
return 0;
}