From e7ed1ca1e0b149bd6279862693213da4da79cf1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Schultz <Martin.Schultz@rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:52:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fixes #17 by removing the swap of len in string serialization
 specification

---
 src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/SR_binary_spec.hh | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/SR_binary_spec.hh b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/SR_binary_spec.hh
index 25e2a1e6..956b6e8f 100644
--- a/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/SR_binary_spec.hh
+++ b/src/OpenMesh/Core/IO/SR_binary_spec.hh
@@ -238,8 +238,6 @@ template <> struct binary< std::string > {
     {
       length_t len = length_t(_v.size());
 
-      if (_swap) reverse_byte_order(len);
-
       size_t bytes = binary<length_t>::store( _os, len, _swap );
       _os.write( _v.data(), len );
       return _os.good() ? len+bytes : 0;
@@ -252,8 +250,6 @@ template <> struct binary< std::string > {
   {
     length_t len;
     size_t   bytes = binary<length_t>::restore( _is, len, _swap );
-    if (_swap)
-      reverse_byte_order(len);
     _val.resize(len);
     _is.read( const_cast<char*>(_val.data()), len );