[Dev] byte swapper

[Brent Verner]

[2002-05-28 23:00] Michael Mueller said:
| Is there a byte swapper for big-to-little, and vice-versa, endian interchange 
| lurking about, or shall I be forced to write yet another?

on (recent?) glibc systems, try

#include <netinet/in.h>
uint32_t flipped = __bswap_32(uint32_t_input)
uint16_t flipped = __bswap_16(uint16_t_input)

not sure if *bsd have an analogous function, but if portability is
paramount, you might have to roll your own.

hth.
  b

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