[Click] endianness

[Bart Braem]

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 13:02, David Biot wrote:
> I'm writing an element to append a sequence number to the packet-data. I
> would like to make sure this is as cross-platform as possible. Is there
> a way to know what the endianness of the current machine is? Normally I
> would use a function where I store a bit-array and cast this to a short,
> but as I discovered, casting is not possible with click.

Use the classical ntohs, ntohl, htons and htonl functions. Those will do the 
right conversions for you!

Bart
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