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From: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
Subject: Re: canonical byte swap macros?
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 20:23:39 +0100
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   is there a standard set of byte swap macros/functions for doing
> big/little endian conversion?  i have no interest in re-inventing the
> wheel and i'm sure there's a universally-recognized set of macros for
> this, no?

glibc has bswap_{16,32,64} in byteswap.h, but I don't think that they
are specified by any standard.

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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>