From: Jeff Woods <Kazrak+kernel@cesmail.net>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: C programming list <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: canonical byte swap macros?
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:48:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.0.20050710204229.03f0a628@no.incoming.mail> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0507102100500.9524@localhost.localdomain>
Howdy.
At 7/10/2005 21:02 -0400, 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?
The most common case where a programmer cares about byte-order is
networking code. Thus "man 3 byteorder" says:
>>htonl, htons, ntohl, ntohs - convert values between host and
>>network byte order
according to http://tinyurl.com/9c8hu which redirects to
http://linux.com.hk/PenguinWeb/manpage.jsp?name=byteorder§ion=3
--
Jeff Woods <kazrak+kernel@cesmail.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-11 2:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-11 1:02 canonical byte swap macros? Robert P. J. Day
2005-07-11 2:48 ` Jeff Woods [this message]
2005-07-11 19:23 ` Glynn Clements
2005-07-11 19:44 ` Steve Graegert
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