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Subject: Re: Observations from an old timer playing with 64 bit numbers...
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Bob:

Thats strange... when I do

man byteorder

(on my FreeBSD 8.0 system upgraded to head .. buildworld/installworld/ 
et.al)

I get the same man age showing for both

man ntohl

and

man byteorder


This may just be a problem with my system.. I will check the other
8.0 installed systems at work when I get in this AM.


I think what's needed here is some hint inside the man ntohl
that for 64 bit quantities should use be64toh/htobe64 and a
reference to that man page..

R
On Jun 23, 2010, at 8:36 PM, Bob Johnson wrote:

> On 6/23/10, Randall Stewart <rrs@lakerest.net> wrote:
>
>> Then I would strongly suggest you go fix the manual page for ntohl/
>> ntohs and
>> point people to the be64toh() functions... then people would NOT be
>> ignorant.
>>
>> The problem is there is NO clue in the system...
>
> Already done, at least in 7.2. But it refers you to them under the
> alias byteorder(9).
>
> - Bob
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