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to: Bo Simonsen
from: Pascal Schmidt
date: 2004-01-15 16:15:06
subject: Big endian machines

Hi Bo! :-)

 BS> Could someone please give me a advice of what I should keep in mind, 
 BS> then I won't to write Endian-less software?
Try to keep all data that passes to different hosts or is stored on disk in
a defined byteorder, for example by using htonl() and ntohl() for 32 bit
integers. Then, when receiving over a network or loading data from disk,
convert to the host byteorder for further processing.

Any integer quantity bigger than 1 byte is a cause for concern.

Ciao
Pascal

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