Re: [Bluez-devel] btohs,btohl, ...

["# Björn Specht #" <bspecht@gmx.net>]

Thanks Marcel,

You're the man!

Bj=F6rn

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:57:10 +0100
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:

> Hi Bjoern,
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> > sorry for my signing. I read that sometimes a different order is used w=
ithin a byte as well and not only between bytes.=20
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> I don't know of any architecture that stores the bits of its bytes in a
> different order and where this is visible to for the user. However such
> a platform might exists.
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> > Okay that makes it easier.
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> You mean big endian communicates with little endian or vice versa?
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> > But if this is not the case:
> > When I send a 32bit integer for example, do I have to worry about the o=
rder of the bytes when I send or receive them?=20
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> If you have a byte stream (a character array) then you don't need to
> worry, because they are stored in a endianless format (bytewise). If you
> use datatypes like uint16_t and uint32_t and send them to the stream or
> copy them into an array then you should convert them to the same endian
> encoding.
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> Regards
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> Marcel
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