From kde-devel  Wed Oct 27 13:18:56 2004
From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Szombathelyi_Gy=F6rgy?= <gyurco () freemail ! hu>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:18:56 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Byte order conversions
Message-Id: <417FA040.5080404 () freemail ! hu>
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Thiago Macieira wrote:

> Szombathelyi György wrote:
> 
>>Is there anyone who knows convenient byte-order conversion functions in
>>QT/kdelibs? If not, then what about adding some functions like
>>{be2me,le2me,me2be,me2le}_{16,32,64) (prefixed with the usual 'K')?. As
>>I browse through the code, every piece of code which requires this
>>functionality implements its own solution, usually with ugly macros and
>>#ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN conditionals.
> 
> 
> htons, htonl, ntohs, ntohl should do the big-endian to machine-endian stuff. 
> 
Then why these functions are not used? Is there any portabiliy issues?

 
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