On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:21:39PM +0100, torbenh@xxxxxx 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 ? -- FA
