-=> Pascal Schmidt wrote to Bo Simonsen <=-

 PS> Hi Bo! :-)

Hi Pascal,

 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?

 PS> Try to keep all data that passes to different hosts or is
 PS> stored on disk in a defined byteorder, for example by using
 PS> htonl() and ntohl() for 32 bit integers. Then, when
 PS> receiving over a network or loading data from disk, convert
 PS> to the host byteorder for further processing.

Aha, it would be the same by reading a packed structure from a file, and 
if the file is written on a little endian machine?

I'm looking into this issue because it looks like that SquishMail has 
problems my reading a packed (__attribute__(packed)) structure from 
diskfile written on a little endian machine.

Bo


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