From: Mike Young <mikey@mcs.com>
Subject: Re: Endian and Ada
Date: 1996/04/09
Date: 1996-04-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <316B1DC8.4B1F@mcs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Apr9.160008.27942@nosc.mil
Kelly Grant wrote:
>
> the Win32 environment (winsock specifically) we have methods like NtoHS (Network
> to Host System) that will know whether to swap bytes or not). I think the
> network byte ordering is big endian, but I don't know for certain.
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Not just winsock, but all Berkeley sockets, meaning almost all unices.
(You might also want to note that some languages are case sensitive.
That's ntohs, thank you. :) Network byte order is commonly accepted (if
not actually specified somewhere) to mean big-endian.
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-04-08 0:00 Endian and Ada Michael Anthony Porcelli
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Mike Young
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Joseph Wisniewski
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Thomas Koenig
1996-04-08 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Kelly Grant
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Mike Young [this message]
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Michael Anthony Porcelli
1996-04-09 0:00 ` Michael Anthony Porcelli
1996-04-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-04-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-04-14 0:00 ` LJMetzger
1996-04-17 0:00 ` phil
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1996-04-18 0:00 Bob Crispen
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