Re: [9fans] ntohl, htonl,

2022-05-13 Thread ori
Quoth Steve Simon : > ntohl in libc? > say its not so? definitely not the byte swapping versions. the unpacking of known bytes with known endianness into an integer, though, is a sensible API that many programs copy and paste; it's trivial to write, but it's also common. I don't feel strongly

Re: [9fans] ntohl, htonl,

2022-05-13 Thread Steve Simon
ntohl in libc? say its not so? -Steve > On 13 May 2022, at 10:23 pm, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > > Quoth adr : >> so I imagined that some functions >> or macros could be defined already somewhere. > > They exist in fcall.h -- see GBIT/PBIT macros. > > I wouldn't object mych to putting them

Re: [9fans] ntohl, htonl,

2022-05-13 Thread ori
Quoth adr : > so I imagined that some functions > or macros could be defined already somewhere. They exist in fcall.h -- see GBIT/PBIT macros. I wouldn't object mych to putting them in libc, possibly with better names and an accompanying patch to move the rest of the code over to use them.

Re: [9fans] ntohl, htonl,

2022-05-13 Thread adr
data in a determinded endianness, so I imagined that some functions I mean "certain" endianness, ugly typo. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tbf58310b561cd180-M6768de0bfccdc64669e77a6f Delivery options:

Re: [9fans] ntohl, htonl,

2022-05-13 Thread adr
On Fri, 13 May 2022, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 10:22:13 -0400 From: o...@eigenstate.org Reply-To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> To: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: Re: [9fans] ntohl, htonl, Quoth Alex Musolino : I'm getting rid of ape but I need the functions at

Re: [9fans] ntohl, htonl,

2022-05-13 Thread ori
Quoth Alex Musolino : > > I'm getting rid of ape but I need the functions at > > /sys/src/ape/lib/bsd/ntohl.c to port some software. These functions > > just change endianness. Is there some native similar functions > > somebody is aware of? lookman is not helping me here. I don't want > > to

Re: [9fans] ntohl, htonl,

2022-05-13 Thread Alex Musolino
> I'm getting rid of ape but I need the functions at > /sys/src/ape/lib/bsd/ntohl.c to port some software. These functions > just change endianness. Is there some native similar functions > somebody is aware of? lookman is not helping me here. I don't want > to add code if a similar

[9fans] ntohl, htonl,

2022-05-13 Thread adr
Hi, I'm getting rid of ape but I need the functions at /sys/src/ape/lib/bsd/ntohl.c to port some software. These functions just change endianness. Is there some native similar functions somebody is aware of? lookman is not helping me here. I don't want to add code if a similar functionality is