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RE: Network programming for eCos under linux


  > 
  > 
  > >   > Watch out for endianness issues. i386 linux is little endian.
  > >   > Whats the endianness of your target? Things like this affects
  > >   > network code.
  > >
  > > This shouldn't pose a problem since I've configured my ARM as
  > > little-endian.  However, htons (), htonl (), etc should solve that
  > > problem anyhow, shouldn't it?  I mean as far networking code goes
that
  > > is.  I would obviously have to be careful about data types between
the
  > > two if they were different.  It's nice to have the ARM with 32-bit
  > > little-endian!  Makes my life a lot easier since I'm sending data
to a
  > > PC.
  > 
  > You're headed for trouble.  I work on software where the author
  > "knew" data was being sent from one little endian machine to
  > another over the network.  Unfortunately one of the ends is now
  > big-endian, and it's now a royal PITA to maintain this stuff.
  > Unfortunalyte there aren't standard host-to-little-endian and
  > little-endian-to-host macros.
  > 
How so?  Are you referring to the networking code, or the data types?

We're not going to be sending to anything other than a PC so either way
it shouldn't be a problem should it?


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