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

[fons adriaensen]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:25:04PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 23:10 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote:
> > 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 ?
> 
> network byte order was defined to be big-endian in the early 1980s.
> those two functions create big-endian 32 bit representations regardless
> of the host platform.

That much I know, so let me rephrase the question: is network byte order
also defined for single precision IEEE floats ? If not, is there a de
facto standard ?

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FA

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