Hi Bo! :-)

 BS> Okay, but just to be scure, I will use Jasens fidoswap, I wonder if 
 BS> there should be any problems in that?
You still get to implement autodetection of the machine's native byteorder,
and then only use fidoswap when it is needed.

Or do something like this:

void swap16(uint16_t *orig)
{
    uint8_t x,y;

    x = *(uint8_t *) orig;
    y = *(((uint8_t *) orig)+1);

    *orig = x + y * 256;
}

That should work on both big and little endian machines, if *orig is
read from disk and is stored there in little endian byteorder.

Note that all the parens in the y expression are important, don't leave
any off or change their scope.

Ciao
Pascal

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