Looks like a nonstandard typedef for an unsigned 32-bit integer. The actual typedef would generally be compiler-specific, but
typedef unsigned int u_int32; would probably work on any linux computer. "Brian Lavender" <br...@brie.com> wrote: >I have some code that has the following snippet, but it has this >u_int32. What the heck is u_int32? > >brian > > >/* > Courtesy of http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/ >*/ >#ifndef CFG_LITTLE_ENDIAN >#define ptohs(x) ( (u_int16_t) \ > ((u_int16_t)*((u_int8_t *)x+1)<<8| \ > (u_int16_t)*((u_int8_t *)x+0)<<0) \ > ) > >#define ptohl(x) ( (u_int32)*((u_int8_t *)x+3)<<24| \ > (u_int32)*((u_int8_t *)x+2)<<16| \ > (u_int32)*((u_int8_t *)x+1)<<8| \ > (u_int32)*((u_int8_t *)x+0)<<0 \ > ) >#else >#define ptohs(x) *(u_int16_t *)(x) >#define ptohl(x) *(u_int32 *)(x) >#endif >-- >Brian Lavender >http://www.brie.com/brian/ > >"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to >make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other >way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." > >Professor C. A. R. Hoare >The 1980 Turing award lecture >_______________________________________________ >vox-tech mailing list >vox-tech@lists.lugod.org >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
