[Spread-users] byte-order/endiness for payload
Joseph VanAndel
vanandel at ucar.edu
Mon May 11 20:02:27 EDT 2009
What techniques do spread users use to handle byte-order and alignment
issues for messages sent via spread?
For example, if I'm sending a set of parameters
struct example {
int param1;
int param2;
float f1;
float f2;
};
from one computer to another computer with different byte order and/or
alignment, I can't simply send the byte representation of the structure.
For integers, I could use the htohl() calls, but there is no standard
implementation (that I know of) for network byte order for floats or
doubles. I could also use Sun's xdr or send the parameters using XML.
Any other suggestions?
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