On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 23:10 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote: > 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 ? 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. --p
