13 Mar
2006
13 Mar
'06
6:03 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:21:39PM +0100, torbenh(a)gmx.de wrote:
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:50:26PM -0500, Lee Revell
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 ?
--
FA
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.