Re: [tlug] Portability of Misaligned Data Access . . . . . . .

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 28/07/06, Ian Wells <ijw@example.com> wrote:

> On point (2), let it be noted that you *never*, *ever* have to
> discover the endianness of your host:
>
> uint16_t read_le_u16(char *x) {
>    return (uint16_t)x[0]+(((uint16_t)x[1]) <<8);
> }

How about just always using htons(3) and htonl(3) to get compatible byte orders?

-Josh