Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:27:33 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: "Balaji, Pavan" <pavan.balaji@intel.com> Cc: "'Matthew Seaman'" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: GCC versions!!! Message-ID: <20020805202733.B376@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18704AD699A@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com>; from pavan.balaji@intel.com on Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:11:39PM -0700 References: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18704AD699A@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com>
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:11:39PM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote: > > That was my guess. But, now how do I set it right, if I'm working on > transferring data between two such machines? > > > Pavan Balaji, > Intel Corporation > Email: pavan.balaji@intel.com The usual solution is to make sure the bytes of your ints/longs/whatever are written to the disk/network/whatever in a known order (usually big-endian, but it doesn't matter, as long as you know what it is), and rearranging them (if necessary) into the native byte order when you read them back again. man htonl for an overview of the library functions that do this for you. HTH, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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