Hi…
The RPC/XDR libraries are a solution to endian conversion in QNX and
Linux, but not for w$nd$s (even with cygwin installed). Do we know of
an open source library that may offer equivalent api to convert to/from
BE to LE machines? SDL offers this service, but I wonder if there is
something lighter out there… (I have some home-cooked code that does
this, but I would like to have a cleaner solution I suppose). Thanks.
Regards…
Miguel.
Miguel Simon wrote:
Hi…
The RPC/XDR libraries are a solution to endian conversion in QNX and
Linux, but not for w$nd$s (even with cygwin installed). Do we know of
an open source library that may offer equivalent api to convert to/from
BE to LE machines? SDL offers this service, but I wonder if there is
something lighter out there… (I have some home-cooked code that does
this, but I would like to have a cleaner solution I suppose). Thanks.
Did you try #include <gulliver.h>?
cheers,
Kris
Hi Kris…
XDR works well in QNX, no problem. <gulliver.h> does the tick too in
QNX. My problem is source compatible code for QNX/LINUX/cygwin. The xdr
version of cygwin is broken, and I was wondering if there is an
alternative to XDR that may be platform independent.
Thanks for your help.
Regards…
Miguel.
Kris Warkentin wrote:
Miguel Simon wrote:
Hi…
The RPC/XDR libraries are a solution to endian conversion in QNX and
Linux, but not for w$nd$s (even with cygwin installed). Do we know of
an open source library that may offer equivalent api to convert
to/from BE to LE machines? SDL offers this service, but I wonder if
there is something lighter out there… (I have some home-cooked code
that does this, but I would like to have a cleaner solution I
suppose). Thanks.
Did you try #include <gulliver.h>?cheers,
Kris
Miguel Simon wrote:
Hi Kris…
XDR works well in QNX, no problem. <gulliver.h> does the tick too in
QNX. My problem is source compatible code for QNX/LINUX/cygwin. The xdr
version of cygwin is broken, and I was wondering if there is an
alternative to XDR that may be platform independent.
Ah…sorry. I misunderstood the problem. Unfortunately I don’t know of
anything else. However, it’s not too hard to roll your own. You’ve got
the byteswapping routines from gulliver.h. You can test with
int n = 1, bigendian = 0;
bigendian = *(char *)&n == 1
Another potential solution would be to use the htnos() type routines in
the socket library to keep everything in a common format but that’s
probably a little to heavyweight.
cheers,
Kris