Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 18:51:11 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> To: Daniel Grech <dgre090@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unsigned Integer Encoding Message-ID: <20120815085111.GA38845@server.rulingia.com> In-Reply-To: <CAG167sY3-i_MimZGJ7qv9NC-u6e2w6RWq_fZt3amFn3%2BjdeKbQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG167sY3-i_MimZGJ7qv9NC-u6e2w6RWq_fZt3amFn3%2BjdeKbQ@mail.gmail.com>
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--wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2012-Aug-15 10:33:46 +0200, Daniel Grech <dgre090@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I have what is probably a really elementary question but I can't seem to >figure it out. In the following snippet of code, why is it that a and b do >not have the same value in the end ? : See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endian >Im asking this as I am currently encoding a protocol in which i receive >data as a sequence of bytes. Casting for example 4 bytes from this stream >leaves me with the situation in variable b, while the situation I am >looking to accomplish is the one in A (i.e. the bytes are not encoded in >reverse form). I suggest you look at xdr(3) and rpcgen(1) --=20 Peter Jeremy --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlArYv8ACgkQ/opHv/APuIfSJwCgwkK8lQlomZ5u2E/IHZH7Wx3l vzgAnjVYVgdBMKwdeUXP7WX5TP3x6xqR =TQhf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw--
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