Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] netjack-0.9rc1

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 00:38:31 EET

Can LAU be removed from further replies?

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 23:40 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:25:04PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 23:10 +0100, fons adriaensen wrote:
> > > Is it true on the common platforms that using ntohl and htonl on
> > > floats will always result in compatible data on the wire or in a
> > > file ? In other words, are floats byte-swapped consistently w.r.t.
> > > the Intel format on all big-endian systems ?
> >
> > network byte order was defined to be big-endian in the early 1980s.
> > those two functions create big-endian 32 bit representations regardless
> > of the host platform.
>
> That much I know, so let me rephrase the question: is network byte order
> also defined for single precision IEEE floats ? If not, is there a de
> facto standard ?
>
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