Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 12:36:24 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Angelin Lazarov Lalev <alalev@uni-svishtov.bg> Subject: Re: C programming help ? Message-ID: <20021019113624.GB66358@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <3DB13F5D.1060908@uni-svishtov.bg> References: <3DB13F5D.1060908@uni-svishtov.bg>
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:17:49PM +0300, Angelin Lazarov Lalev wrote:
> I need to convert some bytes, which are not an internet address, from
> machine to network byte order (described in RFC1700). I could do it
> mannualy, assuming a I386 (or some other) architecture, but then my code
> will be a lot less portable. Is there any function in libc or somewhere
> else which will do that conversion for me (and will be updated when new
> architecture is added)?
inet_ntoa(3), inet_aton(3) will do that conversion for you[*].
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] Although the man page suggests that nowadays addr2ascii(3) and
ascii2addr(3) should be preferred, but the current implementation of
those functions is based on inet_ntoa(3), inet_aton(3).
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