On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 00:14:45 -0700 Igor Korot <ikorot01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > Is there any way to find out if the device is little- or big-endian? Which device are you referring to? You appear to be writing some code for a machine receiving data sent over a wire, and that machine's endianness can be tested by seeing whether G_BYTE_ORDER is defined as G_LITTLE_ENDIAN or G_BIG_ENDIAN, and then used for conditional compilation purposes. glib also has some built in byte-swapping macros: http://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Byte-Order-Macros.html However the thing that puzzles me is that there are other issues here, apart from the byte order of data elements whose size is greater than 1. As another poster has pointed out, the format of the data stream requires specification somewhere. How do you know it is sent as structs with the potentially compiler-dependent layout that you referred to? As I mentioned (and others have mentioned) earlier, what is being sent is serialised data. What you need to know is how the data packet layout of the serialised data is specified and work from there. Chris _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
