[ENet-discuss] sending struct data

[aaron andersen]

The issue is that not all computers use the same endian- wikipedia would
have a great explanation I'm sure.
Any data type which is greater than 1 byte will need to be in the correct
byte order. A char is just one byte, so every computer would read that the
same way, but a typical int is 4 bytes hence big and little endian computers
would store them differently.

I hope this sufficiently answers your question.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Andrew Fenn <andrewfenn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Mark Palkow <palkow at daviko.com> wrote:
> > Is "strcat" the right thing?
> > I would try "strcpy" instead.
>
> Hurray, it works. One more question if you don't mind.
>
> I was reading in the mailing list that one should use the POSH library
> to convert all data to big endian before transmitting. This is done so
> that if one transmits from Mac -> Windows -> Linux the data doesn't
> end up as garbage. Is this correct? What data needs converting, just
> int and float not char?
>
> Sorry for all the silly questions.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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