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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Using representation clauses in networking software
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:40:54 +0200
Date: 2010-08-16T08:40:51+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1d7xr5m7x3e7u$.143h6mnnra5qj$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1182a142-b95e-4349-bbb5-aa82fbd5da6f@a36g2000yqc.googlegroups.com

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:25:33 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> On 15 Sie, 21:15, Simon Wright <si...@pushface.org> wrote:
> 
>> Stick to network-byte-order on the wire,
> 
> Just when ~99% of hardware in use is little-endian?

This does not change anything.

The fact is that the *relevant* endianness is one on the wire. Believe or
not, but it is normal practice that two little-endian machines would
exchange big-endian encoded numbers if the protocol mandates it.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-16  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-15 11:33 Using representation clauses in networking software Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 13:44 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-15 14:32   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-15 14:44     ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 15:04       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-15 15:32         ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 16:10           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-15 16:40             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-15 17:58               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-15 19:11                 ` Shark8
2010-08-15 19:15                 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-15 20:25                   ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-08-15 21:24                     ` Simon Wright
2010-08-16  6:40                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2010-09-04 20:46                     ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 15:39         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-15 15:31       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-15 15:30     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-15 16:10       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-16 10:57     ` Stephen Leake
2010-08-15 15:58 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-15 16:03   ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-17  3:32     ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-16  9:12 ` anon
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