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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Byte order conversions
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2004-10-27 13:14:17
Message-ID: 200410271014.17828.thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net
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Rüdiger Knörig wrote:
>> htons, htonl, ntohs, ntohl should do the big-endian to machine-endian
>> stuff.
>
>But only for short- and long int datatypes. Datatypes of different length
>won't be handled.

Indeed, but those will be implemented in fast, assembly inlined code :-)

16- and 32-bit conversions are probably the most widespread conversion 
anyways.

BTW, in your ConvertEndianness class, why does it have a virtual destructor? 
For that matter, why does it have constructor and destructors at all?

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