"Garrett D'Amore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2. How to handle the Endian methods(LE/BE) in solaris?
> >
>
> In application space, htons and htonl are the common methods. Generally
> you only care about endianness when dealing with data being exchanged,
> and normally you just need network byte order which is handled by htonl
> and htons. If you have other needs, you may need to implement it
> yourself. There are macros, _BIG_ENDIAN and _LITTLE_ENDIAN which will
> report the native byte order for the machine.
But these macros are not POSIX.
Jörg
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