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BYTEORDER(3)            NetBSD Library Functions Manual           BYTEORDER(3)


NAME
htonl, htons, ntohl, ntohs - convert values between host and network byte order
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <arpa/inet.h> uint32_t htonl(uint32_t host32); uint16_t htons(uint16_t host16); uint32_t ntohl(uint32_t net32); uint16_t ntohs(uint16_t net16);
DESCRIPTION
These routines convert 16 and 32 bit quantities between network byte order and host byte order. On machines which have a byte order which is the same as the network order, routines are defined as null macros. These routines are most often used in conjunction with Internet addresses and ports as returned by gethostbyname(3) and getservent(3).
SEE ALSO
gethostbyname(3), getservent(3)
STANDARDS
The htonl(), htons(), ntohl(), and ntohs() functions conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). Their use of the fixed-width intger types uint16_t and uint32_t first appeared in X/Open Networking Services Issue 5 (``XNS5'').
HISTORY
The byteorder functions appeared in 4.2BSD.
BUGS
The `l' and `s' suffixes in the names are not meaningful in machines where long integers are not 32 bits. NetBSD 2.0 June 10, 2004 NetBSD 2.0

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