On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 10:34:39AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The authors concern was that on a big endian system network order and > > byte order are the same so hton* and ntoh* do nothing....so how do you > > do the swapps... > > I suggested a union first (like below) but...whats the "proper" way of > > doing it? > > The solution is to always run hton before putting stuff on the wire and > running ntoh when pulling stuff back. That way you can be sure that the > stuff on the wire is always network byte order without having to put in > nasty test cases.
thats all well and good BUT... xfstt is a ont server for X11....So it has to work within the existing protocols...it would be a "bad thing" if you had to modify the Xserver to use a new font server. However when you don't need to worry about compatibility with existing (albeit somewhat braindead) way things work...you are absolutely correct. -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
