Re: EndianU32_NtoB
Re: EndianU32_NtoB
- Subject: Re: EndianU32_NtoB
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:20:16 -0700
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Sean McBride <email@hidden> wrote:
> Ah yes, I forgot about those... But I've found them not useful in
> practice. I don't get why for ints they have host<->big, host<->little,
> etc. for the floats they don't. Instead they have those weird host<-
>>swapped. And though they take floats, they return structs. Odd.
Probably because the intent is to use them for network communication
or other serialization. So you "encode" a float into a Swapped struct
on the way out, and "decode" it back into a float on the other end.
--Kyle Sluder
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