From: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:44:33 GMT
Subject: Re: htonll, ntohll
Message-ID: <52823ED1.1020306@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <52783518.1030908@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>

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.html

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 Narębski