Re: New manpage for betoh64() and friends

[Nanno Langstraat <nlcom_os-lQF5CfOoLd8@public.gmane.org>]

Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> I spoke too soon.  I'd gone back and looked at your initial mail, seen
> mention of "betoh64" as one of the required link names, grepped for
> that in the glibc headers, and hadn't found it.  But that name is
> wrong, I think you meant "be64toh".  And indeed these interfaces are
> present in glibc 2.9.
>   

Ah, I see.

I'm very sorry for all the confusion that this one manpage has cost you.

My simple aim was: to get a standard set of htobe64() / betoh64() etc.
macros on all platforms
(OpenBSD, Linux, FreeBSD; and hopefully outward from there).

End result: complete failure.

    * OpenBSD wasn't willing to adopt <endian.h> instead of
      <sys/endian.h> for userspace apps.

      (would accomodate glibc: glibc makes a sharper distinction between
      kernel API vs. userspace C library than the *BSDs do)

    * glibc's Ulrich Drepper evidently chose to use his own naming
      scheme (be64toh), instead of adopting the original OpenBSD scheme
      (betoh64).

    * FreeBSD didn't have much interest altogether.


So, I clearly didn't hit the right notes to interest anybody in adopting
a standard.

I hope that this at least explains the situation & our grep confusion.

    With regards,
    Nanno

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