Re: htonl() htons()

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Hans Aberg wrote:

> Does anybody know what should they be on Motorola RISC CPU's?

The should be no-ops for the 68K family, AFAIK.  Motorola has a tradition
of being big-endian, like SPARC, whose maker Sun invented this function
IIRC. Intel is little-endian, so they get to pay the performance price of
actually having to do something for these two functions.  PowerPC's can
even switch back and forth, so it's a question for the operating system to
decide, there.

In case of doubt, you might want to check the glibc sources for your
platform.

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