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 ? -- FA Follie! Follie delirio vano e' questo!