On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:01:24 +0000 Chris Vine <ch...@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > However, as has already been mentioned you should pass sizeof(int) > not 4 when reading and writing the int value - you cannot assume any > particular integer size, as that is platform and processor dependent. > Assuming the reader and write are on the same machine you don't need > to worry about endianness, but if they are on different machines (you > are communicating over a network other than localhost) then you do > need to worry about it.
Actually, if you are communicating over a network other than localhost, you can't use sizeof(int) either because the two machines may have different integer sizes. You would need to use a fixed size integer such as guint32. Chris _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
