Quoth Alex Musolino <a...@musolino.id.au>: > > 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 already in the system. > > No. Those functions are mental. The Plan 9 way is so simple that > there's no library, everyone just brings their own macros/functions. > The trick is: if you care about the order of bytes then you should be > dealing with a byte array, not a native integral type.
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