Why are there "htons" and "ntohs"?

Question

I am not sure why htonsand ntohsexist in the standard library. They do exactly the same thing - if I'm not embarrassed in any way!

The same goes for htonland ntohl.

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Brennan vincent Jun 2 '16 at 17:27

2 answers

Jonathon reinhart · Answer 1 · 2016-06-02T17:30:19+0000

They do for self-documenting code that tells the reader whether the data is in host or network mode.

dbush · Answer 2 · 2016-06-02T17:55:11+0000

This is if the machine has some kind of unusual endianness , other than big-endian or little-endian, which is not one or more simple byte swaps.

, 0x0A0B0C0D 0B 0C 0D 0A, htonl 0x0A0B0C0D, ntohl 0x0C0D0A0B.

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