Re: bug in histogram plot with binary data?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

I help is needed from someone more familiar with the binary data modes.
Anyone care to take over this bug report?

On Wednesday 30 January 2008 12:15, Ralf Juengling wrote:
> 
> Here you go. The binary data is in intel pentium endianess
> (whatever that is).

Thanks. So far as I can tell from a quick test, the problem is
not specific to histograms.  Any other plot type also gets incorrect
x coordinates when using the binary read command on that data file.
If I dump the contents after reading them in, I get this:

gnuplot>  set style data linespoints
gnuplot>  plot "histdata.bin" binary array=1:8 format="%int" using 1
gnuplot> set table
gnuplot> replot

# Curve 0 of 1, 7 points
# Curve title: ""histdata.bin" binary array=1:8 format="%int" using 1"
# x y type
 0  102  i
 0  42  i
 1  38  i
 2  28  i
 3  26  i
 4  108  i
 5  156  i

Can you confirm this on your setup?
The thing is, I wrote the histogram code so I could probably fix it
there if necessary.  But I am largely unfamiliar with the binary input
code, and don't use it much myself.  So I don't know exactly what the
issue might be.  Surely if it returns the wrong x coordinate in general,
someone would have noticed by now?  But maybe not.  Or maybe you have
hit a special case of some sort, though I don't know what it might be.


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Ethan A Merritt