In our previous episode, Reinier Olislagers said: > > Also, I'm sure there must be functions to convert endianness - at least > network byte order (big endian) to host order. > I found e.g. Synapse synsock: > function ntohs(netshort: word): word; > function ntohl(netlong: longword): longword; > function htons(hostshort: word): word; > function htonl(hostlong: longword): longword; > > Are there an equivalent RTL/FCL functions?
Yes, but don't use them. There are independent endian routines in system. Search for swapendian and BEtoN, NtoBE etc. Do not abuse network routines for non network usage. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
