On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 16:54 +0200, walter harms wrote:
> there are the htonl() etc. what do automatic the right thing.
That works just fine when the wire protocol is defined in "network
order", ie. big-endian, which is very common for proper, grown-up
Internet protocols. You still need to use the correct form of the call
for the size of data for the same reasons.
As I understand it though, the X protocol can run either big- or
little-endian on the wire. This is supposedly to avoid the overhead of
byte-swapping back and forth if both client and server are little-endian
(as is the common case on an x86 desktop PC). Instead we must take the
overhead of deciding whether to swap or not...
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From: Jonathan Morton
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