Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Endianess of packet data

[Mitch Davis <mjd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Pfitzner wrote:
> 
> Which is why freeciv packets, to be machine independent, use a
> standard order ("network byte order") instead of the native
> endianness of the machine being used.

As lots of you know, there is a standard set of macros that people
can use to ensure that a packet has network-byte-order.

These standard macros are (usually) in #include <netinet/in.h>,
and are called htonl, htons, ntohl and ntohs.  These are no-ops
on big-endian machines.

Regards,

Mitch.
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