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Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 00:22:33 +0000
Subject: Re: Endianness and comparing IP's
From: "Iain Sandoe" <iain@sandoe.co.uk>
To: "Clayton,Keith - Programmer" <Clayton@ltcc.cc.ca.us>,
        "'alex@cosmo.allay.net'" <alex@cosmo.allay.net>,
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I wrote:
> IIRC IP addresses are defined as big-endian in which case they should not
> need swapping for PPC.

sorry, that's not very helpful...

more to the point is that there are a set of macros/functions designed for
this purpose (try man htons)... which avoids thinking to hard about
transferring between endian-ness of machines.

I'm not sure why the BSWAP32 is being used instead of one of the network
macros... maybe a red-herring but...

Iain.

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