Re: Big, Little and Bi endians

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From: Donut
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:09

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 htons, nstoh, htonl, nltoh, WSAHtonl, ... are good but they do not solve
the mian problem that is being able to convert an arbitary structure.

> Look up the htons, nstoh, htonl, nltoh, WSAHtonl, ... functions. These
> functions convert from whatever the hardware uses natively to a neutral
> consistent ordering. If you use the same functions on the different
> platforms (well, OK, the WSAHxxx functions are Windows specific), then
> it should all work fine, since the different platforms will supply their
> own versions which Just Do The Right Thing.
>
> Note that the functions may just return whatever they're fed with if
> that's already in network order.
>
> Alan Bellingham

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