Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:34:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Daniel Grech <dgre090@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unsigned Integer Encoding Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208151532450.58257@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> 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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> /* This prints 04030201 */
> printf ("b= %0X \n", *b);
>
all is OK, you did this probably on x86 CPU which is little endian. on
powerpc it would be 01020304 as it is big endian.
to write endian independent code:
man htonl
all these are macros actually.
"network order" is big endian. so eg htonl would reverse order on x86, and
ddo nothing on powerpc.
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