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Assume that we want to communicate (a) via RS232 and  (b) via ethernet 
between a PC and an ARM based embedded controller unit (and/or a PDA)

Assume that most of the communication consist of transmitting/receiving of 
messages similar to the following structure. Also assume that both PC 
application and ARM application use the same header files for the messages.

typedef struct {
     short int    A;
     int            B;
     float        C;
     double    D;
     unsigned char  E;
}MyStruct;


Becasue Pentium processor in PC and ARM processor in the embedded unit use 
different endians (litte & big endians) the byte orders in the transmitted 
and received structures will be different.

How to solve this little/big endian problem?

How to make PC application send/receive structures to a ARM based embedded 
unit  (a) via RS232 and  (b) via ethernet between without worrying about the 
endians?

Regards.