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Re: htonl() htons()
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker |
Subject: |
Re: htonl() htons() |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:03:22 +0200 (MET DST) |
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Hans Aberg wrote:
> Does anybody know what should they be on Motorola RISC CPU's?
The should be no-ops for the 68K family, AFAIK. Motorola has a tradition
of being big-endian, like SPARC, whose maker Sun invented this function
IIRC. Intel is little-endian, so they get to pay the performance price of
actually having to do something for these two functions. PowerPC's can
even switch back and forth, so it's a question for the operating system to
decide, there.
In case of doubt, you might want to check the glibc sources for your
platform.
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