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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.ht=
ml

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].

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Jakub Nar=C4=99bski