Merge branch 'master' into apparent-pairs-new

* master:
  fixed documentation: the binary format for distance values is 32 bit, not 64 bit
  fixed compile error pointed out by adamConnerSax
  fix to read, properly handling premature end of file
  endian conversion for binary read
  removed examples and development files for master
  removed benchmark files

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/ripser.cpp b/ripser.cpp
index f243728..b7b5929 100644
--- a/ripser.cpp
+++ b/ripser.cpp
@@ -962,10 +962,15 @@ enum file_format {
 	BINARY
 };
 
+static const uint16_t endian_check(0xff00);
+static const bool is_big_endian = *reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t*>(&endian_check);
+
 template <typename T> T read(std::istream& input_stream) {
 	T result;
-	input_stream.read(reinterpret_cast<char*>(&result), sizeof(T));
-	return result; // on little endian: boost::endian::little_to_native(result);
+	char* p = reinterpret_cast<char*>(&result);
+	if (input_stream.read(p, sizeof(T)).gcount() != sizeof(T)) return T();
+	if (is_big_endian) std::reverse(p, p + sizeof(T));
+	return result;
 }
 
 compressed_lower_distance_matrix read_point_cloud(std::istream& input_stream) {