[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] netjack-0.9rc1

[fons adriaensen]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:21:39PM +0100, torbenh at gmx.de wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:50:26PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
>
> > Why do you use big-endian on the wire, requiring a double swap for x86
> > <-> x86?  Wouldn't LE make more sense, especially as PPC Macs become
> > unavailable?
> 
> well i am not in a position to redefine ntohl and htonl.

Is it true on the common platforms that using ntohl and htonl on
floats will always result in compatible data on the wire or in a
file ? In other words, are floats byte-swapped consistently w.r.t.
the Intel format on all big-endian systems ?

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FA