Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 08:27:40 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help - No htonq, ntohq Message-ID: <199809042227.IAA12990@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980904181025.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> from Simon Shapiro at "Sep 4, 98 06:10:25 pm"
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Simon Shapiro wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a clean, portable way to support binary competability on
> 64bit integers between an Alpha and IA?
int64_t & u_int64_t
> We have hton{l,s} but these are good only for 16 & 32 bit values.
I think hton{l,s} should be kept strictly for _network_ code.
> What is the exact Alpha byte order? 12345678, 87654321, 43218765, ...
^^^^^^^^
Little endian.
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