Re: htonll, ntohll

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Nov 13, 2013, 12:20 UTC
Message-ID: <52836E84.3020901@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <52783518.1030908@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>

On 2013-11-05 01:00, Ramsay Jones wrote:

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> [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.]
>

That post actually contradicts your statement, as it clearly states that "someone at Adobe figured out about byte order and there would have been no problems transferring files between (big-endian and little-endian) machines... if the people at Adobe wrote proper code to encode and decode their files".

htonl(), ntohl(), htons(), ntohs() are those "encode" and "decode" functions. If you or the author of the post you linked think otherwise, you're misinformed and need to learn what encoding and decoding means.

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