[Gllug] endian.h

[rich at annexia.org]

> >Big Endian (aka network byte order)
> >Little Endian  (busted x86 byte order)
> >
> >So betoh32 <-> ntohl && letoh32 <-> htonl
> 
> Which will, of course, fail on Linux/SPARC, Linux/PPC and other big
> endian ports, where ntohl() and htonl() are NOPs. To paraphrase,
> "all the world's not an x86".

Hmmm ... except that it probably won't fail. On, say, Sparc machines,
the betoh32 (Big Endian to Host) transformation _is_ a null transformation,
because Sparcs are already Big Endian.

Rich.

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