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Re: [avr-libc-dev] Re: Ethernet & IP networking support?
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Joerg Wunsch |
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Re: [avr-libc-dev] Re: Ethernet & IP networking support? |
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Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:43:22 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
As Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> So, what's about having, say, htonX () and ntohX () functions
> in AVR Libc? These are standard [Posix], ...
Well, avr-libc doesn't aim to be a subset of Posix, but rather wants
to be a C standard library. Anyway, I wouldn't mind adding those to
the library, albeit creating a subdirectory "arpa" just for the
purpose of keeping these two macros/inline functions in <arpa/inet.h>
looks a little strange.
However, that makes less than one percent of a functional IP stack
;-), and as Eric already explained, the remainder of an IP stack
wouldn't belong into avr-libc. At best, it could be more on-topic for
the companion project avr-corelib, but I think they are still lacking
much more basic things than an IP stack.
Btw., SLIP is dead. PPP replaced it very successfully, and nobody
sheds a tear anymore for SLIP.
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