From: "Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Cc: "Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>,
"Vicent Martí" <tanoku@gmail.com>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: htonll, ntohll
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:44:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52823ED1.1020306@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52783518.1030908@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
W dniu 2013-11-05 01:00, Ramsay Jones pisze:
> [Note: I have never particularly liked htons, htonl et.al., so adding
> these htonll/ntohll functions doesn't thrill me! :-D For example see
> this post[1], which echo's my sentiments exactly.]
>
> HTH
>
> ATB,
> Ramsay Jones
>
> [1] http://commandcenter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/byte-order-fallacy.html
Errr... htonl is about host to network order, and not about big- or
little-endianness of architecture. The macros are good, its their
implementation that might fail [1].
--
Jakub Narębski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-12 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-28 19:28 What's cooking in git.git (Oct 2013, #07; Mon, 28) Junio C Hamano
2013-10-28 21:58 ` Thomas Rast
2013-10-30 16:51 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-10-30 17:01 ` Vicent Martí
2013-10-30 17:14 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-10-30 17:39 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-10-30 19:11 ` Ramsay Jones
2013-10-30 19:06 ` Ramsay Jones
2013-10-30 20:30 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-10-30 21:07 ` Ramsay Jones
2013-10-31 13:24 ` htonll, ntohll Torsten Bögershausen
2013-11-05 0:00 ` Ramsay Jones
2013-11-06 15:58 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2013-11-12 14:44 ` Jakub Narębski [this message]
2013-11-13 12:20 ` Andreas Ericsson
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