[ sox-Bugs-3609370 ] Incorrect endian used when converting to caf on OSX

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Bugs item #3609370, was opened at 2013-03-28 09:44
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: LeeHickey (leehickey)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Incorrect endian used when converting to caf on OSX

Initial Comment:
On the latest OSX build, converting to caf seems to always output a big-endian irrespective of the --endian setting. If I then look at the outputted caf in Quicktime, or in my own sound loading code, the file is actually big endian.

sox test.wav --endian little test.caf -V -V
sox: SoX v14.3.1
time:  Apr 10 2010 11:31:36
uname: Darwin lee2.local 11.4.2 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:25:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
gcc:   4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)
arch:  1248 48 44 L 
sox INFO formats: detected file format type `caf'
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav': Length : 110642
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav': caff
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav':   Version : 1
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav':   Flags   : 0
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav': desc : 32
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav':   Sample rate  : 44100.000
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav':   Format id    : lpcm
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav':   Format flags : 0
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav':   Bytes / packet   : 2
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav':   Frames / packet  : 1
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav':   Channels / frame : 1
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav':   Bits / channel   : 16
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav': free : 4016
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav': data : 106546
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav':   edit : 0
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.wav': End

Input File     : 'test.wav' (caf)
Channels       : 1
Sample Rate    : 44100
Precision      : 16-bit
Duration       : 00:00:01.21 = 53273 samples = 90.6003 CDDA sectors
File Size      : 111k
Bit Rate       : 733k
Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
Endian Type    : little
Reverse Nibbles: no
Reverse Bits   : no

sox INFO sox: Overwriting `test.caf'
sox DBUG sndfile: `test.caf': Length : 0

Output File    : 'test.caf'
Channels       : 1
Sample Rate    : 44100
Precision      : 16-bit
Duration       : 00:00:01.21 = 53273 samples = 90.6003 CDDA sectors
Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
Endian Type    : little
Reverse Nibbles: no
Reverse Bits   : no
Comment        : 'Processed by SoX'

sox INFO sox: effects chain: input      44100Hz 1 channels 16 bits (multi)
sox INFO sox: effects chain: output     44100Hz 1 channels 16 bits (multi)

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