On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Alan Barrett wrote:
> But what should "foo" be?  I suggest using "v", following the precedent
> set by Perl's "pack" and "unpack" functions.  So we get vtoh{l,s} and
> htov{l,s} as functions to convert between native host byte order ("h")
> and little-endian byte order ("v").

Um, 'v'? How about 'b'(ig) or 'l'(ittle) instead:

btoh{l,s}	-> bit endian to host
ltoh{l,s}	-> little endian to host
htob{l,s}	-> host to big endian
htol{l,s}	-> host to little endian

Maybe 'le' and 'be' instead of 'l' and 'b':
betoh{l,s}, letoh{l,s}, htobe{l,s}, htole{l,s}. 


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>