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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Byte order conversions
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2004-10-27 13:32:31
Message-ID: 200410271032.31747.thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net
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Szombathelyi György wrote:
>> 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?

I could guess that the reasons are:

1) people don't know they exist

2) people don't want to
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
just to have them
(unlike glibc on Linux, some systems out there require that you include the 
dependencies yourself)

3) people require little-endian to host-endian conversions

Aside from that, they are mandated to exist by sockets, so I don't believe 
there are portability issues.
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